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Minnesota farm blighted by drought, 1936

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Source: MA Desertification Synthesis Report (2005), p.23

http://www.greenfacts.org/en/desertification/figtableboxes/appendix-a.htm

http://www.greenfacts.org/en/desertification/figtableboxes/figure-2-1.htm

The map is based on data from UNEP Geo Data Portal (http://geodata.grid.unep.ch/ ). Global area based on Digital Chart of the World data (147,573,196.6 square km); Data presented in the graph are from the MA core database for the year 2000.

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Photo credit: United States Department of the Interior Bureau of Reclamation - Lower Colorado Region viewed in Google Earth