Deserts

Crescent shapes formed by the wind.

The use of these formations could have led to the local extinction of these grazing animals.

Mountains, lush valleys and deserts are all present.

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Sands provide look into climate change over millenia.

This enterprising species survives in the driest place on Earth.

The impact of airborne dust on our climate is being determined.

An oasis near Death Valley gets water from an aquifer that sits directly beneath the Nevada Test Site, which hosted nuclear bomb tests over four decades.

A University of Arizona ecologist studies how climate change is impacting vegetation in the Sonoran Desert.