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Deserts set to expand

World's poorest must change lifestyles as Earth dries up.

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  1. Millennium Ecosystem Assessment. Ecosystems and Human Well-Being: Desertification Synthesis, Available at http://www.inweh.unu.edu/ inweh/MA/Desertification-Synthesis.pdf (2005).

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Hopkin, M. Deserts set to expand. Nature (2005). https://doi.org/10.1038/news050613-7

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