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The desert’s fragile skin can’t take much more heat

Climate change and human activity are destroying the layers of fungi, lichen, and bacteria that protect deserts from erosion.
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Saguaro cactuses are under threat because of climate change
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Saguaro cactuses are under threat because of climate change

A warming world means the invasive buffelgrass — a danger to the cactus — is thriving.
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