A dense blanket of smog coils snugly around city-centre apartments and Mongolia's traditional round ger tents in its outer districts most winter mornings. Ger dwellings have sprawled as hundreds of ...

Over a year after a devastating winter wiped out virtually his entire sheep flock, herder Zandan Lkhamsuren is still reckoning with the damage wrought by Mongolia's increasingly ... salted milk tea in ...

Within hours of arriving, Ochkhuu had pitched his ger—the ... Across Mongolia some eight million animals—cows, yaks, camels, horses, goats, and sheep—died that winter.

Mongolia’s sweeping steppe and nomadic heritage attract tens of thousands of tourists from around the world each summer. Come winter, though, popular tourist spots are eerily deserted ...

The toxic smog that settles over the Mongolian capital every winter has been a suffocating problem for more than a decade that successive governments have failed to dispel.

Show more Show less Heavy snowfall and frozen ground means livestock cannot find food Mongolian herder Enebold Davaa's family lost more than 100 goats, 40 sheep and three cows last winter Herder ...