Thus, between cold seas and towering mountains, the most arid climate on the planet was woven.
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Discover Magazine,
Discover Magazine,
27 June 2025
In Australia’s arid center, those blotches represent a new inland sea, born from a deluge that has traveled hundreds of miles through the veins of a giant, parched continent.
While urban areas like Los Angeles are under mandatory drought restrictions to reduce strain on state reservoirs, many rural residents reliant on groundwater wells are waterless.
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