BBC Nature - Desert videos, news and facts - 1 views
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kircher library on 23 Jul 13A collection of videos and photographs of the flora, fauna of deserts throughout the world including Australia
Combating Desertification - local solutions for a global problem - 0 views
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Promotional video that shows the global problem of desertification in various areas around the world, and the local solutions that the DESIRE project tries to develop to allevaite these problems. Duration 7.33 mins
Adaptations of desert amphibians and reptiles - 0 views
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Encyclopaedic entry about how amphibians and reptiles adapt to the desert.
Adaptations of desert plants - 0 views
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Encyclopaedic entry about how plants adapt to the desert.
Desert Adaptations of Birds and Mammals - 0 views
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How and why mammals and birds adapt to desert conditions.
Desert Adaptations - 0 views
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Covers the major ways plants and animals adapt to the water and temperature stresses they experience around Tucson, AZ.
Climate at the Desert Studies Center - 0 views
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Example of the climate of the Mojave Desert with average temperatures and weather forecasts.
The Formation of Desert - 1 views
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Follow the links on the right for the effects of climate on deserts, flora and fauna and people
HowStuffWorks "How Desert Survival Works" - 0 views
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Introduction to how desert survival works, including tips on surviving in the desert and short videos.
National Museum of Australia - Extremes - 1 views
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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.
Photos: Desertification - 1 views
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Photographic explanations of desertification including understanding, prevention and human interaction
desert - National Geographic Education - 0 views
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Comprehensive National Geographic encyclopaedic entry on deserts including photographs
China's Dust Storms Raise Fears of Impending Catastrophe - 0 views
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Article detailing the problem of desertification in China, its causes, effects and efforts at prevention.
Alice Springs Desert Park - 1 views
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The Alice Springs Desert Park resource for children. Includes sections on Australian desert facts,plants, animals and Aboriginal survival plus interactive activities.
The Bushmen nomadic hunter gatherers of the Kalahari Desert - 0 views
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One person's account of their journey into the Kalahari Desert following the Bushmen of the Kalahari
DesertUSA - 1 views
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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.
National Geographic Threats to Desert Pictures - 1 views
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National Geographic photographs of ecological threats to deserts worldwide
Human Impact on the Mojave Feature Articles - 1 views
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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.
BBC Nature - Desert diversity cut by 'human activities' - 1 views
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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.
Desert life threatened by climate change and human exploitation -The Independent - 2 views
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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.
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