The Gobi is overall a cold desert due to it being so far above sea level, with frost and occasionally snow occurring on its dunes. Winds from the Siberian Steppes can cause the Gobi to reach − ...

A common misconception is that the shrub-steppe (the biome we live in here in Central Washington) is a desolate wasteland, a desert, good for nothing except development and further human ...

Alaska has regions of “polar desert” with little snowfall, and Kobuk Valley National Park includes a desert above the Arctic Circle with remarkable shifting sand dunes. The park’s three dune fields ...