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Killer salinity rings Australia's desert heart

Only the Sahara has more desert than Australia, whose red center has long been thought uninhabitable by modern man. But while Australia's central deserts are now seen as benign and are starting to yield fruit, salination is turning once productive farmland into lifeless dirt tracts. But while Australia's central deserts are now seen as benign and are starting to yield fruit, salination is turning once productive farmland into lifeless dirt tracts

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