Unlike hot deserts near the equator ... challenges your notion of a “typical” desert. The Gobi Desert is often nicknamed a “cold desert” precisely because of these severe cold snaps ...

The desert extends from the Pamirs Mountains to the Greater Khingan Mountains. Much of the Gobi is not sandy, instead resembling exposed bare rock with some lakes. The Gobi is overall a cold ...

Scientists simply call these cold deserts. Unlike hot deserts, they are typically ... Perhaps the most prominent example of this is the Gobi Desert in northern China and southern Mongolia.

If we move to the north, we are just afraid of the cold. In my homeland ... three quarters of Mongolia’s land. The Gobi is the sixth largest desert in the world, stretching into northern ...

The Sahara desert is extremely hot during the day and cold at night but others, like the Gobi desert, can be a lot colder. A hot desert is often covered in sand and the plants and animals that ...

The Gobi Desert is a world away from the Southern California deserts, a cold desert versus our hot deserts but with similar wildlife and geological landscape, like mirror images. Both ecosystems ...

Mateusz Waligora's approximate route across the Gobi Desert. Last winter had been very cold in the Gobi, with lots of snow and temperatures as low as -30°C, and Waligora was banking on a milder year.