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Deserts - Information on the effects of global warming on deserts [Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)]

O:
Our dynamic desert landscape - Overview of studies of fragile and active landscape of the American Southwest deserts, including projects on geologic mapping, surface processes, remote sensing research, ecological processes, and earthquake hazard applications. [Department of the Interior, U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), Geologic Division, Western Region Earth Surface Processes Team]