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Mongolia grapples with devastating winter, endangering livestock and nomadic traditions

Mongolia grapples with devastating winter, endangering livestock and nomadic traditions

Mongolia's nomadic herders face unprecedented losses as extreme winter conditions kill more than 2 million animals, highlighting the increasing threat of climate change.

Zaya Delgerjargal reports for Yale E360.

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This pristine lake has endured for 2m years. Why are its fish in crisis?

Beneath the surface of one of the world’s oldest lakes in Mongolia, Hovsgol grayling, a species found nowhere else, are struggling to survive.

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Dust, hail and bank loans: the Mongolian herders facing life without grass

The climate crisis is bringing more storms, colder winters and drier summers which is threatening to extinguish a whole way of life on the Mongolian steppes.

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Clean energy's dirty secret: How push for modern technology has made Chinese pond toxic

A tailings pond lies on the west of the Chinese city Baotou, one filled with a black grey sludge of toxic and radioactive material.
As Earth warms, human history is melting away

As Earth warms, human history is melting away

Climate change is revealing long-frozen artifacts and animals to archaeologists. But the window for study is slender and shrinking.
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On the move with Mongolia’s nomadic reindeer herders

Facing growing uncertainties, the Dukha people are being forced to make difficult decisions about their traditions and their future.
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Buried alive in Mongolia's worst sandstorms in a decade

A combination of extreme weather, climate change and environmental degradation have created the perfect storm – or rather, a series of eight cross-border sandstorms that have destroyed animal herds, exacerbated respiratory problems and cancelled flights in both Mongolia and China.

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