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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
desertify .
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Examples
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You have already very large zones in West Africa - one called the Sawhill (ph) - and in southern Africa that are desertified (ph).
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More than a third is desert, a third is gravel gobi, the rest is mostly Aeolian desertified land interview with Wang Tao, director of the Cold and Arid Regions Environmental and Engineering Research Institute.
When a Billion Chinese Jump Jonathan Watts 2010
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More than a third is desert, a third is gravel gobi, the rest is mostly Aeolian desertified land interview with Wang Tao, director of the Cold and Arid Regions Environmental and Engineering Research Institute.
When a Billion Chinese Jump Jonathan Watts 2010
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We remarked that we felt like we needed our passports to get there because it felt like such a different world than the Quechua speaking mountainous, desertified region of Bolivia we call home.
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More than a third is desert, a third is gravel gobi, the rest is mostly Aeolian desertified land interview with Wang Tao, director of the Cold and Arid Regions Environmental and Engineering Research Institute.
When a Billion Chinese Jump Jonathan Watts 2010
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Satellite images reveal that the areas with dense Kashmir goat herds are becoming desertified.
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Badghyz lies on one of the ancient Silk Road routes, but the area was largely abandoned and desertified in the Middle Ages.
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Desertification has strong adverse impacts on non-drylands as well; affected areas may sometimes be located thousands of kilometers away from the desertified areas.
Ecosystems and Human Well-being~ Desertification Synthesis~ Summary for Decision-makers 2008
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Badghyz lies on one of the ancient Silk Road routes, but the area was largely deserted and desertified since the Middle Ages.
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Scenarios for future development show that the desertified area is likely to increase, and the relief of pressures on drylands is strongly correlated with poverty reduction.
Ecosystems and Human Well-being~ Desertification Synthesis~ Summary for Decision-makers 2008
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