about 1/3
>> "about 1/3"?! Who wrote that? 70.8% of the earth's surface is water. If desert is a third of the planet, then there's absolutely nowhere left for humans and animals to live. I'm pretty sure there are some trees still left on the planet. Desert is defined as either land that has less than 50mm rain each year or land which cannot sustain life. This includes Antarctica. 29.2% of the earth's surface is land. About 25% of the earth's surface is desert. Which leaves only 4.2% of the earth's surface as inhabitable and to be shared by 6.75billion people and countless billions of animals. >>>>> The person probably meant that about 1/3 of the earth's land surface is desert. Making it about 10% of the total surface of the earth as water is around 70%.
About one-third of the earth's land surface is covered by deserts. That's about 33 percent.
About 40% of Asia is covered by desert. Most of these deserts are located near the Middle East and surrounding areas.
Desert
There are 5 deserts located in the southwestern U.S.: Mohave Desert Great Basin Desert Chihuahuan Desert Colorado Plateau Desert Sonoran Desert
Mohave Desert
my guess is 90%.
The Sahara
Mostly desert(95%)
95% of the Arabian peninsula is desert
about 30%
About 33% of the land surface of the earth is desert.
70 percent
Libya does.
white desert
The Desert Soil
All of the continent is classified as a desert, and there is some moisture that falls on the Antarctic Peninsula.
Only twelve percent of Texas is desert. The rest of the state receives enough rainfall to move out of the desert classification.
Sonoran Desert Great Basin Desert Chihuahuan Desert Painted Desert Mojave Desert
120%