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linked to higher risks of negative health and metabolic outcomes. Limited access to nutritious foods in food deserts can greatly impact one's ability to engage...

short-lived, and cannot therefore be expected to bestow the fruits of actions at a future time according to one’s deserts. We do not see any insentient thing bestow...

than used solely as accompaniment. According to Varèse, the title of the piece regards "not only physical deserts of sand, sea, mountains, and snow, outer...

precipitation occurs, and which are sometimes called polar deserts or "cold deserts". Deserts can be classified by the amount of precipitation that falls...

hot deserts are the second most common type of climate on Earth after the polar climate. There are two variations of a desert climate according to the...

Desert greening is the process of afforestation or revegetation of deserts for ecological restoration (biodiversity), sustainable farming and forestry...

Food deserts are generally defined as regions that lack access to supermarkets and affordable, healthy foods, particularly in low-income communities. According...

the Chihuahuan Desert and partly border other ecoregions that are not deserts. There are few urban areas within the desert: the largest is Ciudad Juárez...

regions which have been described as medical deserts, with those locations featuring inadequate access to one or more kinds of medical services. An estimated...

of food desert issues and solutions by country. African food deserts are complex due to accelerated urbanization, the various ways individuals acquire...

leading one to a garden of eight hundred roses and myrtles that is watered by many rivers. In the garden is one's canopy, its beauty according to one's merit...

Sonoran Desert is clearly distinct from nearby deserts (e.g., the Great Basin, Mojave, and Chihuahuan deserts) because it provides subtropical warmth in winter...

percent). Deserts: 44% (1,198,956 km2) Semi-Deserts: 14% (381,486 km2) Steppes: 26% (708,474 km2) Forests: only 5.5% (149,870 km2) Deserts + Semi-Deserts: 58%...

in the phrase "just deserts" (e.g., "Although she was not at first arrested for the crime, she later on received her just deserts."). The alternate spelling...

Gobi, used to refer to all of the waterless regions in the Mongolian Plateau, while in Chinese Gobi is used to refer to rocky, semi-deserts such as the...

sedentary people. Bedouin territory stretches from the vast deserts of North Africa to the rocky ones of the Middle East.[better source needed] They are sometimes...

use the term to help define the various temperature and precipitation regimes for planet Earth. A great portion of the world's deserts are within the...

sclerophyll forests (temperate warm, semihumid to semiarid with winter rainfall) Deserts and xeric shrublands (temperate to tropical, arid) Mangrove (subtropical...

and armor upgrades on their car to fight enemies. It is set in an open post-apocalyptic wasteland consisting of deserts, canyons, and caves. Two other...

The desert is one of the four biologically defined deserts in North America, in addition to the Mojave, Sonoran, and Chihuahuan Deserts. Basin and range...