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August 13, 2012 09:38 am PDT
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The desert that creates the rainforest
This is probably the most amazing thing I learned all weekend. The Amazon rainforest—with all its plant and animal life, and all its astounding biodiversity—could not exist as we know it without the patch of African desert pictured above. The rainforest is amazing, but the soil it produces isn't very nutrient rich. All the minerals [...]Original Link: http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/oMJzvkVoqIE/the-desert-that-creates-the-ra.html
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