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Heavy seasonal rains, unable to penetrate the hard-baked ground of Australia's Simpson Desert, form shallow lakes in Witjira National Park. These so-called ephemeral ponds support an explosion of life, from waterbirds to wildflowers, then disappear as quickly as they came. Photograph by Jason Edwards