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pbs.org/wgbh/nova/ubar/hotscienceubar/desert07.html

yeuanhvan.com/environment/1187-sahara-desert

nationmaster.com/country-info/stats/Geography/Land-area/Sq.-km

britannica.com/place/Gobi/Climate

viewmongolia.com/mongolia-gobi-desert-facts.html#:~:text=The%20Gobi%20desert%20temperature%20reaches,C%20to%20%2B38%C2%B0C.

https://www.finncare.org.au/finnish-culture/

toptenz.net/incredible-facts-about-the-sahara-desert.php

britannica.com/place/Gobi

https://www.chinadaily.com.cn/m/innermongolia/2016-09/28/content_26925680.htm

mercycorps.org/blog/mongolia-work-play-learn-gobi-desert

worldatlas.com/articles/the-largest-cities-in-western-sahara.html

eartharchives.org/articles/dinosaurs-of-the-gobi-desert/index.html

pbs.org/wgbh/nova/ubar/hotscienceubar/desert07.html

yeuanhvan.com/environment/1187-sahara-desert

nationmaster.com/country-info/stats/Geography/Land-area/Sq.-km

https://www.finncare.org.au/finnish-culture/

https://www.chinadaily.com.cn/m/innermongolia/2016-09/28/content_26925680.htm

mercycorps.org/blog/mongolia-work-play-learn-gobi-desert

worldatlas.com/articles/the-largest-cities-in-western-sahara.html

topgear.com/car-news/classic/pioneers-across-gobi-desert-1922

https://www.discovermongolia.mn/blogs/mongolian-gobi-animal#:~:text=The%20Gobi%20is%20occupying%2030,valuable%20medicinal%2C%20fodder%20and%20decorative

pbs.org/wnet/nature/blog/camel-fact-sheet

https://animalia.bio/goitered-gazelle

fauna-flora.org/species/saiga

atlasobscura.com/articles/mongolia-wild-ass-back-east



eartharchives.org/articles/dinosaurs-of-the-gobi-desert/index.html

eartharchives.org/articles/t-rex-was-likely-an-invasive-species

nhm.ac.uk/discover/dino-directory/protoceratops.html

oldest.org/nature/deserts

google.com/books/edition/Lonely_Planet_Mongolia/akljDwAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=mongol+eagle+hunters+Gobi+Desert&pg=PT19&printsec=frontcover

historyonthenet.com/mongol-empire-timeline

smithsonianmag.com/history/is-china-committing-genocide-against-the-uyghurs-180979490

bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-02-26/huge-chinese-desert-projects-will-power-next-wave-of-wind-solar

google.com/books/edition/1001_Battles_That_Changed_the_Course_of/2ZNADwAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=Han%E2%80%93Xiongnu+War+Gobi&pg=PA68&printsec=frontcover

http://www.china.org.cn/arts/2021-03/10/content_77292793.htm

militaryhistorynow.com/2020/03/31/guarding-the-gobi-desert-frontier-life-at-the-fortress-of-jiayuguan-in-the-1920s

biography.com/explorer/marco-polo

navytimes.com/news/your-navy/2018/12/30/how-naked-world-war-ii-sailors-ended-up-riding-mongolian-ponies-in-the-gobi-desert-to-shoot-bazookas-at-the-japanese

wired.com/story/404-the-city-left-behind-by-chinas-nuclear-ambition

armscontrolcenter.org/fact-sheet-the-civilian-and-military-characteristics-of-plutonium/#:~:text=The%20International%20Atomic%20Energy%20Agency,as%20little%20as%203.5%20kg.

nationalgeographic.com/science/article/alashan-plateau-article?loggedin=true

britannica.com/place/Gobi

sabcnews.com/sabcnews/encroaching-sands-a-threat-to-china

forbes.com/sites/danielrechtschaffen/2017/09/18/how-chinas-growing-deserts-are-choking-the-country/?sh=2f48141b5d1b

theconversation.com/chinas-desertification-is-causing-trouble-across-asia-59417

chinahighlights.com/beijing/attraction/tianmo-desert.htm

abcnews.go.com/International/hold-sand-battle-tame-chinas-deserts/story?id=78115202

nationalgeographic.com/science/article/china-great-green-wall-gobi-tengger-desertification

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