The Colorado Desert of southeastern California was not always a seemingly barren wilderness.

But it wouldn't be long now, deep into summer, until the Headlands would be unrelieved brown, seemingly barren of life.

Fueling mistrust, officials said, is the sheer bustle on the hilly island, a seemingly barren place about 500 miles long and 500 miles east of Murmansk, inside the Artic Circle.

Midge pupae are often present in astonishing numbers, and, in these seemingly barren months, they often have the limelight to themselves.

A must in early spring (any time from the end ofJuly to early September), when the rains bring daisy carpets that transform this seemingly barren scrubland.

This stark, seemingly barren land was their home; the rough grass burned crisp with cold was life-sustaining nourishment for them.

Early scientists were unsure how the reefs sustained life in the seemingly barren and dark conditions of the northerly latitudes.

How did all the greenery get to this seemingly barren place?

In a drier area, Zoë reported DNA and proteins on seemingly barren rocks.

Greet them Out of the seemingly barren earth against which they had hidden rose the little golden people of the San.