As its phosphate stores began to run out ( by 2006, its reserves were exhausted ), the island was reduced to an environmental wasteland.

After that, only two buildings in the immediate vicinity of Potsdamer Platz still stood-one complete, the other in a half-ruined fragmented form: the Weinhaus Huth's steel skeleton had enabled the building to withstand the pounding of World War II virtually undamaged, and it now stood out starkly amid a great levelled wasteland, although now occupied only by groups of squatters.

Young children's street culture usually takes place on quiet backstreets and pavements, and along routes that venture out into local parks, playgrounds, scrub and wasteland, and to local shops.

The Dragonarmies pulled all of their troops out of the wasteland that Silvanesti had become.

Carbonite extraction is carried out by people who live outside the city in the surrounding wasteland.

Young children's street culture usually takes place on quiet backstreets and sidewalks, and along routes that venture out into local parks, playgrounds, scrub and wasteland, and to local shops.

It ’ s just like out here, in the wasteland.

" Critic Robert Towers described McEwan's England in The New York Review of Books as a " flat, rubble-strewn wasteland, populated by freaks and monsters, most of them articulate enough to tell their own stories with mesmerizing narrative power and an unfaltering instinct for the perfect, sickening detail "; Towers called the collection " possibly the most brilliantly perverse and sinister batch of short stories to come out of England since Angus Wilson's The Wrong Set.

Earth Prime is shown to be a desolate barren wasteland of a planet which has been ripped out of orbit, with ruins as far as the eye can see.

All that now remains is one platform and an area of wasteland east of the station before Simpson Road crossing which was controlled by a signal box that was taken out of service in 2004.

Musically, the audience responded most fervently to The Who, roaring as they came on stage with a roiling " Who Are You ", drowning out the band on the famous " It's only teenage wasteland " refrain of " Baba O ' Riley ," and reaching a peak of excitement with " Won't Get Fooled Again.

The emir believed the man's story because he and his men later went out into the wasteland to find Zerzura, but never did, though it is possible that the emir did not look in the right area of the desert.

Arriving just in time to stop men from turning their planet into a radioactive wasteland, the Overlords unite earth into one world in which justice, order, and benevolence prevail and ignorance, poverty, and fear have ceased to exist.

* The land between Egypt and Canaan of the first Exodus was a " great and terrible wilderness, an arid wasteland " ( Deut 8: 15 ), but in this new Exodus, the land between Babylon ( Mesopotamia ) and the Promised Land will be transformed into a paradise, where the mountains will be lowered and the valleys raised to create level road ( Isa 40: 4 ).

Deforested regions typically incur significant adverse soil erosion and frequently degrade into wasteland.

In the sequel survivors of the Martian war are revealed to be the main antagonists of the game in an attempt to colonize once more after Mars was turned into a desert wasteland from the Furons ; instead of Martians they are referred to as Blisk.

* At the end of Fountains, Earth turns into an icy wasteland because the Sun has cooled.

Soon after, Pryderi, Cigfa, Manawydan and Rhiannon ascend a magical hill and, when they descend, Dyfed had turned into a barren wasteland with no inhabitants.

The four friends live happily until they ascend the mound at Gorsedd Arberth and the kingdom turns into a barren wasteland, and all of its inhabitants disappear except for the four members of Pryderi's family.

Howard's Conan the Barbarian and Flash Gordon, Thundarr the Barbarian is set in a future ( 3994 AD ) post-apocalyptic wasteland divided into kingdoms or territories — the majority of which are ruled by wizards — and whose ruins typically feature recognizable geographical features from the United States, starting in New York City and working itself to Los Angeles, Las Vegas, Mount Rushmore, San Francisco or Washington, D. C.

Wasteland is set in 2087, following the nuclear war of 1998, when Earth has been turned into the titular " wasteland " where survival is the paramount objective.

A she-goat with a silver bracelet hung from her neck was driven forth into the wasteland of ' Alini ' by the community.

A few birds from the central Siberian range also winter in Iran at the south of the Caspian Sea ; in former times these flocks also migrated to the Aral Sea before the late 20th century ecological catastrophe turned most of the habitat there into inhospitable wasteland.

But the alternative is an Iran turned into a nuclear wasteland.

* Tactical Nukes launch over a large range to oblitterate the target, severely reducing population of target cities and also create pollution, as well as destroying roads and land improvements in the 8 surrounding squares and often turning some tiles into wasteland tiles, with significantly reduced shield, gold and food production.

The sketch ends with the ultimate tourist attraction, the Hydrogen Bomb, which turns Los Voraces into a vast, barren wasteland.

After removing the small optical disk with all the memory from the old unit, Treadwell searches for a replacement, enlisting Edith " E " Johnson ( Melanie Griffith ), a tough tracker who guides him into the wasteland interior of a post-apocalyptic United States.

He was eventually simply murdered with his body dumped into a wasteland in the Stung Meancheay district of Phnom Penh.

The ultimate goal of the Reckoners is to turn the entire Earth into an evil, haunted wasteland — literally a Hell on Earth.

* Deadlands: Hell on Earth — a role-playing game set in one possible future of the Weird West, where the Reckoners succeeded in turning the entire Earth into a haunted wasteland.

The prolonged conflict had turned Skaro into a wasteland, and radiation sickness was a common hazard.

The giant herds and teeming wildlife of the Great Plains were well known by the time the term Great American Desert came into common use, undermining the idea of a wasteland ; however, the relevant concept inherent in the reports of the region was that it could not be farmed, something the reports generally agreed on.

The small area of Rockvil that can be survived is a wasteland, and society has collapsed into complete chaos.

Kukliński was also concerned that his homeland would be turned into a nuclear wasteland as the Warsaw Pact's superiority in conventional forces would mean NATO would respond to a military action with tactical nuclear weapons.

Tim learns that he is an " Opener " and has unconsciously been making his fantasies real all his life -- whether they be simple imaginary friends or entire worlds -- Tim introduces Molly to some more of his imaginary friends made real, Tanger and Crimple, who live in a tree on some wasteland near Tim's house.

The entire world is transformed into a bleak wasteland ruled by Mr. Crocker, and all citizens become his slaves.

Phlegethos is a fiery wasteland filled with active volcanoes, hills of ash, gouting fires, streams of magma, pits of smoking excrement, and burning sand beneath a screaming rain of magical fire flakes.

She was forced to banish them to an area of Lunar called " The Frontier ," a barren wasteland where even Althena's magical power could not reach.

Once determining that Gekko cannot beat Yaiba without some degree of magical weapon, Gekko goes to " Cell Sixty Six " to unleash the Mao-Ken sword, the blade responsible for turning the Moon from a lush bamboo forest into a barren wasteland.

Cobsea lies inland and borders the Cacotopic Stain, a large wasteland created by the unreliable magical energy known as Torque.

A nuclear war between the Soviet Union and the West has reduced much of the world to a barren wasteland.

However, mankind survived and entered an age where the strong ruled over the weak, as the few survivors fought over whatever supply of food and uncontaminated water remained in the wasteland of the world.

By the time the protagonists enter, the world is now an arid wasteland, with no living organisms to be seen anywhere, and the city on the brink of collapse.

Forty years prior to the events of the series, the world was turned into a vast desert wasteland and the survivors were left without memories.

After attempting to defend the girl, he is caught in the transportation to another world, a wasteland devoid of water and dominated by red giant star.

As UW Professor of Anthropology Kenneth Read so eloquently expressed it, “ History sits on this little wasteland, not only the parochial history of a given city, but also a fragment of the chronicle of world and culture.

The Horde had caused severe environmental damage to their planet due to excessive pollution which laid much of the world an uninhabitable wasteland.

* Toxic Shaman: When the Ghost Rock Bombs were dropped, and the world transformed into a toxic wasteland, many of the nature spirits were affected by the mystical corruption.

Europe, some of Asia, North Africa, Antarctica and the Arctic are inhabited by Traction Cities, and North America is a radioactive wasteland, while much of the rest of the world is the stronghold of the Anti-Traction League, an organisation that seeks to stop cities from moving and thus stop the intense consumption of the planet's resources.

You also get to visit more exotic lands than in the previous installments, for each quest takes place in its own universe: a forest world, a frozen wasteland, and one that's linked via time warps to different times on earth, from ancient Rome to the Nazi's Berlin.

Without the crystals, though, the world transforms into a foggy, desolate wasteland.

Ark takes place on a dying alien world in which a global war between two technologically advanced human civilizations has reduced the planet to a wasteland.

Other travellers have arrived on the wasteland world too – the fannish Whizz Kid ; the motorcycling maniac Nord ; tiresome bore and intergalactic explorer Captain Cook and his young female companion Mags, whom the Captain curiously refers to as a " unique specimen ".

Bit-tech described it as " a schizophrenic design built over a bland world " and described the environment as " an imagination wasteland ".

They find the world a ruined radioactive wasteland.

In the 21st century, most of the world has been reduced to a radioactive wasteland.