Africa has a proportionately larger area in arid, or desert, climate zones than any continent except Australia. Each of these areas-the Sahara in the north, the Horn in the east, and the Kalahari and Namib deserts in the southwest-has less than 250 mm (less than 10 in) of rainfall annually.way from the equator, to the north and south, the savanna climate zone grades into the drier steppe climate zone. Average annual rainfall varies between 250 and 500 mm (10 and 20 in) and is concentrated in one season.
People who consume wine and beer may be getting too much arsenic in their diet. (iStock) Wine and beer lovers may be surprised to learn that there may be too much arsenic in their favorite beverages.
Red wines are best served in large wine glasses, like these red wine glasses. The bowls of these glasses will be fuller and rounder with a larger opening than other wine glasses of similar capacities in order to allow you to dip your nose into the glass to detect aroma.he bowls of wine glasses are also designed to allow an amount of surface area appropriate to the wine-red wine glasses will have a larger amount of surface area for the wine to allow it to breathe, while white wine glasses will have a smaller amount of surface area.