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Four football fields of land degrade into desert every second. That equates to an area almost as large as Ethiopia each year.

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After years of drought, rare floods have brought wildlife and tourists to a Moroccan town on the edge of the Sahara Desert. Meteorologists say it’s part of a cycle of extreme weather likely to ...

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The Taklamakan Desert in China is now surrounded by a 1900-mile green belt to prevent sandstorms and protect local ...

The desert dunes of Dubai have some unexpected guests—a pack of rodents native to Argentina … and they seem to be thriving in their new home. Numbers of Patagonian mara—rodents with rabbit ...