Definition of badland
: a region marked by intricate erosional sculpturing, scanty vegetation, and fantastically formed hills
—usually used in plural
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With the country surrounded by Islamist insurgencies and other civil wars in Chad, South Sudan and the Congo, the spillover from these badlands can fuel — and be fueled by — the region’s chronic instability.
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Junipers aside, the main draw at the badlands are the rocks.
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But reminders of human occupation do little to change the overwhelming sense of isolation in the badlands.
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While the combination of old-growth, lava rock and mountain views makes the badlands a place of true desert beauty, the human touches add another dimension, bringing focus to the present.
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So Schweitzer pushes on, walking briskly across the badlands in search of fossils, bits of protein, and, perhaps one day, acceptance.
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The fossilized remnants of the Bisti Beast, or Bistahieversor sealeyi, were found in 1996 in the Bisti/De-Na-Zin badlands near Farmington, New Mexico.
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The area stretches from the badlands of the Lebanese town of Arsal and Christian villages of Ras Baalbek and Qaa, to the outskirts of Syria's Qalamoun region and parts of the western Syrian town of Qusair that Hezbollah captured in 2013.
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Australia is known for fun and sun, but the badlands of Queensland can get a bit intense: Satellites operated by NASA recorded a temperature of nearly 157°F there in 2003.
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First Known Use of badland
1850
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