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desert
(redirected from Cold desert)

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desert v. to intentionally abandon a person or thing.


See also: abandon, abscond, default, defect, depart, disclaim, escape, evacuate, fail, flee, forswear, leave, merit, neglect, quit, relinquish, renege, renounce, reprisal, requital, retreat, retribution, revenge, secede, tergiversate, vacate, withdraw, worth


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RISING temperature, widely believed to be because of climate change, is not only making glaciers recede but is also changing crop patterns in this highland cold desert.
This cold desert covers approximately 14,000,000 square kilometers (about 5,400,000 square miles).
And as the entire continent of Antarctica is a cold desert and is about 14 million square kilometres in size, it beats the hot desert of the Sahara (nine million square kilometres) and is the biggest desert in the world.
 
 
 
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