Authorities said the youngsters endured searing deserts and frigid mountains, as well as malnourishment.

Over geological time, the Earth's dominant climate has gone from ice age to tropical heat and from steamy jungles to searing deserts.

Three men died in a group of 25 trying to walk across 50 miles of searing desert, the authorities said today.

He stepped back through the door outside his quarters, and stumbled into the searing desert of Vulcan's Forge, pitiless Nevasa baking him from almost directly overhead.

Farouk al-Baz, a prominent Egyptian geologist who teaches at Boston University, has warned that the canal's path across the searing desert could squander water through high rates of evaporation.

However critics point out that much of the water pumped into the searing desert will evaporate, adding that it is likely to be contaminated with toxic pesticides and fertilisers.

There was a towering cathedral-like edifice in a searing desert.

YAFRAN, Libya - In the evening, as the searing desert temperatures subside, the residents who have returned to this rebel-held city near the front lines appear on the streets.

To the west, it descended into a low-lying, searing desert called Amon's Cauldron.

(Jul. 16, 1997) There is a 1200 mile strip of land off the southwestern coast of Africa where the searing Namibian desert meets the frigid Atlantic sea.