1. The soil in cold deserts is often fine silt, saline and heavy. 2. At night, he sleeps under a cold desert sky on hard-packed earth. 3. Being cold desert area, the vegetation in Karakoram Wildlife Sanctuary is quite sparse. 4. Water and nitrogen uptake patterns following moisture pulses in a cold desert community. 5. In 2009, India designated Cold Desert of Himachal Pradesh as a biosphere reserve. 6. But the climate changed . . . . Mars became a cold desert . 7. In general, is it common for non-cold deserts to be productive farmland if irrigated? 8. Between, the cold desert climate is characterized by annual precipitation that does not surpass. 9. This plant grows in the dry cold desert of the western Snake River Plain. 10. Ectotherms also use burrows as a means to keep warm in the cold desert nights.