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| - | areas, making up almost one-quarter of the Earth surface, are home to
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| - | 500 million people. As a result of human habitation, every continent in
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| - | the world except Antarctica is increasingly and adversely affected by
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| - | desertification. Studies forecasting climate trends indicate that
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| - | desert regions will face an even drier future – in regard to both
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| - | climatic factors and drought conditions – stemming from the influence
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| - | of human activities. One human-created impact on these desert
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| - | environments is pollution. Many remediation challenges exist specific
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| - | to the extremely dry conditions present in these arid locales. For
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| - | example, what happens when a desert area is polluted with such
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| - | substances as plastics, where commonly employed bioremediation agents
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| - | used for environmental cleanup cannot survive desert climates’ high
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| - | resistance to organisms used to facilitate the elimination of
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| - | contaminants, like plastics, in desert-like environments. Our goal is
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| - | to design an assortment of complementary parts, which will strengthen
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| - | organisms and help to broaden their climatic and geographic range of
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| - | effectiveness. While some parts included in our kit could, conceivably,
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| - | provide resistance to other types of stresses, such as ionizing
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| - | radiation, we will initially focus on desiccation. Because of its
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| - | potential to expand the extent of the efficacy of these biological
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| - | breakdown expedients into even climatically extreme territories, our
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