Fog desert Fog desert A fog desert is a type of desert where fog drip supplies the majority of moisture needed by animal and plant life. Examples of fog deserts include the Atacama Desert of coastal Chile and Peru, the Baja California Desert of Mexico, the Namib Desert in Namibia, the Arabian Peninsula coastal fog desert, and Biosphere 2, an artificial closed ecosphere in Arizona. The Atacama Desert, the driest desert in the world, is able to maintain a sufficient level of plant and animal species biodiversity because of its status as a fog desert. Drastic changes in elevation such as mountain
In the Desert In the Desert "In the Desert" is the name given to a poem written by Stephen Crane (1871–1900), published in 1895 as a part of his collection, "The Black Riders and Other Lines". "In the Desert" is the third of fifty-six short poems published in this volume. Crane's poetry has been given significantly less scholarly attention than his fiction. In fact, none of Crane's poems were anthologized until 1926. When the poems were published, Crane was criticized for the unusual form of the poems and was said to have some nerve in presenting these "disjointed effusions" as poetry. The first