#13000391Summarize Spoken TextAcademicHard
Desertification
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The audio is about the reason why Gobi and other deserts are expanding. Moreover, changing climate cycles affecting the rainfall, and human-driven global warming is also fueling this process. The speaker said that extreme droughts, deforestation and overgrazing have severely degraded once-fertile soils. Hence, this man-made destruction is called desertification, and it's happening globally, and by the middle of the century, 25% of the world's soils will be affected.
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The audio is about the reason why Gobi and other deserts are expanding. Moreover, changing climate cycles affecting the rainfall, and human-driven global warming is also fueling this process. The speaker said that extreme droughts, deforestation and overgrazing have severely degraded once-fertile soils. Hence, this man-made destruction is called desertification, and it's happening globally, and by the middle of the century, 25% of the world's soils will be affected.
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