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The Sonoran Desert is a desert located in the Southwestern United States and northwest Mexico. It is the second largest hot desert in North America. Its total area is 120,000 sq mi (310,000 km 2). The Mojave Desert is the hottest desert in North America, located primarily in southeastern California and Southern Nevada.
All deserts of the United States are located in North America except the Kaʻū Desert which is located in Hawaii. Subcategories. This category has the following 6 ...
The Sonoran Desert is clearly distinct from nearby deserts (e.g., the Great Basin, Mojave, and Chihuahuan deserts) because it provides subtropical warmth in winter and two seasons of rainfall (in contrast, for example, to the Mojave's dry summers and cold winters). This creates an extreme contrast between aridity and moisture.
This is a list of the largest deserts in the world by area. It includes all deserts above 50,000 km 2 (19,300 sq mi). Some of Earth 's biggest non-polar deserts
Lori Trudell, a professor at Clemson University, says pharmacy deserts have become a crisis in the U.S. "When you think about the thousands of pharmacies in rural communities that are closing, you ...
The Great Basin overlaps four different deserts: portions of the hot Mojave and Colorado (a region within the Sonoran Desert) Deserts to the south, and the cold Great Basin and Oregon High Deserts in the north. The deserts can be distinguished by their plants: the Joshua tree and creosote bush occur in the hot deserts, while the cold deserts ...
In the U.S. desert southwest, experts expect to see a 57% increase in coarse atmospheric dust and a 38% increase in the more dangerous fine atmospheric dust by the end of the century. That, in ...
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