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A sandstorm moves the Gobi desert in Mongolia.

Buried Alive In Mongolia's Worst Sandstorms In A Decade

May 30, 2021
Even the rescue teams could not go forward during one of the fiercest of many sandstorms this spring. Herders have lost their herds — an estimated 1.6 million livestock — and their lives.
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Whatever Happened To ... The Heavy Metal Mongolian Band Called The Hu?

Sep 05, 2020
They're cooking up new music — including a song for a 'Star Wars' video game — and videos on how to prepare traditional foods. Care for a fried meat pie?
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Photo highlights from our top stories: Inuit parenting teaches kids how to control anger; a fisherman holds up a fish caught in Lake Malawi, where transactional sex is part of the fish trade; the Dandora Landfill in Nairobi, Kenya.

7 Of Our Most Popular Global Health And Development Stories In 2019

Dec 20, 2019
Secrets of Inuit parenting, a Mongolian heavy metal band and a controversial medical center in Uganda were among the topics that drew the most readers.
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Fleas transmit plague — but the pneumonic plague, the type reported from China this week, can spread from person to person as well.

China Reports 2 Cases Of The Most Dangerous Type Of Plague

Nov 15, 2019
Authorities have censored Chinese-language news of the hospitalization of a couple who traveled from Mongolia to Beijing for treatment, perhaps to tamp down fears.
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Changing Mongolia
Trucks churn up coal dust at the Tavan Tolgoi coal mine in the South Gobi desert. The Tavan Tolgoi deposit is estimated to possess 6.5 billion tons of coal, including high-grade coking coal  —  a product vital to the steel-making process.

Mongolia's Long Road To Mining Wealth

Jul 31, 2019
Mongolia is undergoing a dramatic transformation from a pastoral society to one whose economy is based on mining, especially copper and coal. With the change has come opportunity — and loss.
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Rapid population growth in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, coupled with a household dependence on coal for heating and cooking has created perfect conditions for one of the most extreme cases of air pollution in the world.

Mongolia's Capital Banned Coal To Fix Its Pollution Problem. Will It Work?

Jul 30, 2019
Winter nights in Ulaanbaatar can drop to minus 20 degrees Fahrenheit. Many residents without electricity burn coal to heat their homes, leading to toxic air and health problems.
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Herders bury animal carcasses in 2010 in Mongolia's Dundgovi province. A decade ago, an extreme winter — known in Mongolia as a <em>dzud</em> — claimed the lives of 22% of the nation's livestock and sped up migration from rural areas to urban centers

The Deadly Winters That Have Transformed Life For Herders In Mongolia

Jul 29, 2019
Mongolia's herders are accustomed to cold, but the extreme conditions of the country's terrible winters, known as dzuds, killed countless livestock and livelihoods. Herders have had to adapt.
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The domesticated Bactrian camel is the largest species of camel in the world. They are able to withstand the harsh terrain of Central and East Asia. Adapted to keep sand at bay, the camels have two rows of eyelashes and sealable nostrils.

Where Camels Become Beauty Queens: Inside Mongolia's Biggest Camel Festival

May 11, 2019
Two-humped Bactrian camels were domesticated thousands of years ago to carry goods and people across Asia. Every year, herders come to one Gobi Desert town to celebrate these gentle giants.
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The bacterium that causes the plague travels around on fleas. This flea illustration is from Robert Hooke's Micrographia, published in London in 1665.

Bubonic Plague Strikes In Mongolia: Why Is It Still A Threat?

May 07, 2019
The ancient disease is still around — and killed a couple in Mongolia just this month. Here's a look at the history — and persistence — of the plague.
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Ice shooting players Ser-od Dechingalav, 30 (right), and Enkhbaatar Batdelger, 30, won the partner contest.

For Mongolia's Ice Shooters, Warmer Winters Mean A Shorter Sports Season

Apr 21, 2019
This season's final competition, originally scheduled for mid-March, had to be bumped up by two weeks. "The river was already melting," the town's mayor explained.
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How A Mongolian Heavy Metal Band Got Millions Of YouTube Views

Jan 05, 2019
All it took for The Hu to have an Internet breakthrough was a dramatic video and screaming guitars — plus a horsehead fiddle and throat singing.
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Narantulga Buriad with the comic book about domestic violence that she illustrated.

The Strong Women Of Mongolia Are Ready To Take On The Patriarchy

Sep 27, 2017
They're better educated than men and have lower rates of unemployment. Yet they still run up against the patriarchy. A group called Women for Change wants to change that.
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They're the only two female artists working on a Mongolian street mural about the U.N. Sustainable Development Goals: Michid Enkhbat (stooping) and Odno Bold. The goal they're illustrating: "gender equality."

Mongolia's Hunt For Female Street Artists

Sep 11, 2017
The goal was to paint street murals that illustrate the 17 U.N. Sustainable Development Goals. And not to have only male artists — especially for the goal about gender equality.
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Milking a mare in Mongolia.

Looking Into The Horse Milk Story That The Dalai Lama Told John Oliver

Mar 09, 2017
The spiritual leader says he brought down Mongolia's rate of alcoholism by encouraging a switch from vodka to horse milk.
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Lkhagvajav Bish unties one of her cows. Bish's herd has dwindled since she began raising cashmere goats. She used to have 20 goats; now she has 150. "They're just taking over," she says.

How Your Cashmere Sweater Is Decimating Mongolia's Grasslands

Dec 09, 2016
Mongolian goats produce the world's highest quality cashmere wool, and international demand has soared. There's a problem, though. These goats are turning the country into an ecological wasteland.
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Gankhuyag, a former nomadic herder who now works in Ulaanbaatar as a porter, stands inside his ger on the outskirts of town.

Once Booming, Mongolia's Economy Veers From Riches To Rags

Dec 05, 2016
The sparsely populated nation of nomadic herders rode China's booming economy by supplying it with coal. But as China's economy slows and commodity prices drop, Mongolia's economy is crashing.
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One of the members of a coal mining brigade spends a moment with his two-year-old son before descending into a mine shaft.

Amid Economic Crisis, Mongolians Risk Their Lives For Do-It-Yourself Mining

Dec 01, 2016
Mining once boomed in Mongolia but as commodity prices fell, the economy tanked and companies went bankrupt. Unemployed men are taking over abandoned coal mines to extract what's left. Some have died.
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Dr. Odontuya Davaasuren, right, says that a good death is "being comfortable, being with loved people, listening to good words. Even an unconscious person listens, because hearing stops last."

How One Woman Changed The Way People Die In Mongolia

Nov 05, 2015
When Dr. Odontuya Davaasuren saw how much her father and mother suffered, she was determined to bring palliative care to her homeland.
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