Meet a changing Mongolia.
Rivers are dry. Pastureland is giving way to mines. And wintertime smog obscures the famed blue sky.
It’s a story of internal migration and economic transformation in an …
- Mongolians are migrating away from rural areas, seeking work elsewhere. And one of the places they're going is Ömnögovi, a mineral-rich province in the South Gobi, home to the mega-mining projects Tav …
- Last winter, a report by UNICEF Mongolia deemed the situation a "child health crisis." In the past decade, the incidence of respiratory illness across Ulaanbaatar has increased 2.7-fold per 10,000 peo …
- Dzuds, unique to Mongolia, are homegrown natural disasters born out of the country's unusual environment: landlocked, semiarid and prone to swings in temperature and precipitation. Historically, dzu …
- Why this regional craze for the two-humped creature? The origin story is intertwined with Mongolia's transition to democracy.
