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Did you know that a desert doesn't have to be hot or sandy? In fact, many of the world's harshest deserts are freezing cold. There are about 33 central deserts worldwide. They cover one-fifth of the ...

Snow crunches underfoot. The air is thin, sharp and silent. Mountains rise like walls on all sides, their peaks dusted white even in summer. A river cuts through a wide, open valley. Nothing about ...

SHIMLA -Himachal Pradesh’s Spiti Valley in Lahaul-Spiti district has been recognized as India’s first Cold Desert Biosphere Reserve under UNESCO’s prestigious Man and the Biosphere (MAB) program. With ...

Deserts are most commonly associated with extreme heat, dunes, and overall arid conditions. But in the past five years, there have been instances of snowfall in various deserts around the world, ...

Kargil (Ladakh), Dec 21, 2025 (ANI): Fresh snowfall blanketed Kargil, turning the cold desert into a picturesque white wonderland. Russia-Ukraine war to finally end? 20-point peace plan unveiled in ...

In the Gobi Desert outside Golmud in the northwestern province of Qinghai, a row of white tanks stands tall in the open wilderness. Inside, air is compressed and cooled to -194 degrees Celsius (-317 ...

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In the vast and lonely Arizona desert about 50 miles south of Las Vegas, tourists who took a wrong turn stumbled across a woman's naked and bloodied body on Dec. 12, 1989. Two days later and nearly ...

Maggie O’Neill is a health writer and reporter based in New York who specializes in covering medical research and emerging wellness trends, with a focus on cancer and addiction. Prior to her time at ...