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Noun
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Across oceans, forests, and deserts, animals regularly interact with members of other species in ways that benefit both sides.
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Until that changes, maternity care deserts will continue to expand — and the distance between patients and care will continue to grow.
Noun
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Just under 300,000 years from the moment Homo sapiens appeared in Africa, the species had encircled Earth, mastering desolate deserts and frozen wastelands and all the temperate climes in between.
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Now, the anti-wealth Marxist agenda taking over the Democratic Party is worsening the divide, turning blue-state economies into wastelands and condemning their least mobile residents to poverty.
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In its place urchin barrens now carpet the seafloor; a spiny, silent landscape stripped of life.
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The forests are marked by sparse conifer stands, woodlands, herbaceous vegetation, and unvegetated barrens that dominate the transition to Arctic tundra.
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“Badlands.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/badlands. Accessed 30 Jun. 2026.
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