desert
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About 40% of the world's lithium supply comes from salty underground brines located beneath desert regions.
From Science Daily • May 23, 2026
They’ve terraformed the desert terrain by planting trees, building houses, and even constructing a Walmart and an airport.
From MarketWatch • May 23, 2026
At the Mojave National Preserve — a 1.6-million-acre stretch of desert between Las Vegas and Los Angeles — the challenges facing the iconic plant are evident.
From Los Angeles Times • May 19, 2026
Around 300,000 refugees have fled to eastern Mauritania's desert Hodh Chargui region to escape the violence that has plagued Mali for more than a decade.
From Barron's • May 19, 2026
There was nothing but the wide expanse of flat desert, which reached toward the edge of the horizon, where massive sandstone plateaus stood that were as faint and round as orange clouds.
From "Healer of the Water Monster" by Brian Young
Vocabulary lists containing desert
Physical Geography - Introductory
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The American Civil War
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