Newspaper article describing a study that has found that the deserts of the world are threatened by a combination of human exploitation and climate change that could, within decades, wipe out many unique habitats and rare species.
A comprehensive resource about the North American deserts and Southwest Destinations including facts, videos, current news, blogs and a newsletter. Covers the people, flora and fauna, ecosystems, landscape, climate and geology of American deserts as well as the Sahara, Gobi and Great Sandy Desert.
The Alice Springs Desert Park resource for children. Includes sections on Australian desert facts,plants, animals and Aboriginal survival plus interactive activities.
Education kit accompanying the National Museum of Australia's exhibition Extremes: Survival in the Great Deserts of the Southern Hemisphere. Downloade the PDFs What is a Desert and People and the Desert.
Humans may be destabilising desert ecosystems across the world, according to a new study.The findings are published in the Journal of Arid Environments and assess how man-made disturbances affect the role of mammals in the ecosystem.
The Mojave desert makes an ideal case study for researching long-term effects of disturbances to desert ecosystems. Land managers are now faced with the daunting task of dealing with competing demands on the land, including impacts from all-terrain vehicles, motorcycles, military activities, and grazing livestock.
desertSMART COOLmob is a network of over 500 households in Alice Springs committed to DesertSMART living. Their website Includes resources, photos, newsletters and project details for sustainable living in the desert.