deserts
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Byron Jones, horticulturalist at Tacoma’s Point Defiance Zoo and Aquarium, grows a host of “unthirsty” botanical marvels in the Deserts and Baja Gardens, from sedum and cactuses to agaves and yuccas.
From Seattle Times • Apr. 12, 2024
IOM said that nearly half of the deaths recorded last year were linked to the crossing of the Sonoran and Chihuahuan Deserts.
From Reuters • Sep. 12, 2023
Deserts are the source of most of the dust traveling around the world.
From The Verge • Jul. 15, 2022
Cornett, in fact, is documenting this and other desert ecosystem transformations for a book, which has a working title of “The California Deserts: Then and Now.”
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 4, 2021
L'Isle des Monts Deserts meant to him the Island of the Lonely Mountains, and lonely indeed they must have seemed above the flat shore line.
From The Book of the National Parks by Yard, Robert Sterling
Vocabulary lists containing deserts
Twelfth Night
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Chief Joseph's Words to Washington D.C. (1879)
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Antony and Cleopatra
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