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Mongolia

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Fossilized tree rings
Climate Change
The history of the world is written in tree rings
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Lifestyle
Can helping men in Mongolia improve life for women?
The new water-based process being used by some independent Mongolian miners can extract up to 80% of the gold from the ore and is much cleaner than processes using mercury or cyanide.
Environment
These Mongolian miners are making gold greener. Now they want their government to help.
A man walks on the roof of a traditional ger home while fixing the chimney of a coal burning stove on a cold hazy day on the outskirts of Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia.
Environment
Mongolian nomads say goodbye to herding, hello to smog
A herd of endangered Przewalski's horses trot across the Takhin Tal National Park, part of the Great Gobi B Strictly Protected Area, in southwest Mongolia, on June 22.
Environment
Photos: Rare wild horses are making a stunning return to Mongolia
Science
Meet the new horse-headed, 35-foot-long, beaked Deinocheirus mirificus
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Global Politics
Hong Kong immigrants use Broadway show tunes to bring the democracy protests to Time Square
The BP Amoco yard in Greenpoint, Brooklyn is one of the stops during The Poison Cauldron tour. Refining ceased along Newtown Creek in the 1960s, and today the name of the game is petroleum distribution from fuel barge fed tank farms like this.
Lifestyle
Want to tour a toxic beach? ‘Anti-tourism’ explores the darker, dirtier corners of the world
The BP Amoco yard in Greenpoint, Brooklyn is one of the stops during The Poison Cauldron tour. Refining ceased along Newtown Creek in the 1960s, and today the name of the game is petroleum distribution from fuel barge fed tank farms like this.
Lifestyle
Want to tour a toxic beach? ‘Anti-tourism’ explores the darker, dirtier corners of the world
A magnifying glass is held in front of a computer screen in this picture illustration. A Russian gang has stolen private information from 1.2 billion internet users around the globe in a new story published by The New York Times on August, 5, 2014.
Technology
A record Internet data heist can’t be fixed with a password change
A magnifying glass is held in front of a computer screen in this picture illustration. A Russian gang has stolen private information from 1.2 billion internet users around the globe in a new story published by The New York Times on August, 5, 2014.
Technology
A record Internet data heist can’t be fixed with a password change
China smog
Environment
What deteriorating air quality looks like around the world
Mongolian huntress
Lifestyle & Belief
In Mongolia, this girl hunts using an eagle
Orifong (left) plays bass and Askhan sings and plays guitar for the Mongolian folk metal band, Nine Treasures.
Arts, Culture & Media
What would Genghis Khan rock to if he could? Mongolian folk metal
Washington DC rappers Pacman and Peso.
Arts, Culture & Media
DC rappers take their show on the road, hoping to be discovered in North Korea
Sports
Teenage Rider Wins Mongol Derby
Environment
China’s economic rise fuels growth among outdoor pursuits
Arts, Culture & Media
VIDEO: Mongolian mandolin player mixes bluegrass with sounds of his homeland
Mongolia merges modern life with tradition with annual Naadam games
Environment
Mongolian way of life threatened by dramatic climate change
In culturally homogenous South Korea, tentative steps toward multiculturalism
In Korea, trees planted in Mongolia bring hopes for fewer dust storms
Development & Education
China faces desertification
Lifestyle & Belief
Ireland’s rift with Vatican deepens over child sex abuse reports
Arts, Culture & Media
Britain Named Most Prolific Invader
Arts, Culture & Media
Tom Pang Plays Bluegrass with a Mongolian Twist
Sports
Naadam: Mongolia’s Ancient Mid-Summer Sports Fest
Conflict & Justice
Suspected Mongolian Dinosaur Skeleton Seized in New York
Lifestyle & Belief
Video: Climate Change Threatens to Transform Mongolia
Arts, Culture & Media
Video: Nisvanis Rocks Capital of Mongolian Grunge
Blog: Rains That Don’t Wet
Blog: Holding Back the Gobi
Arts, Culture & Media
Mongolian Tunes From Hanggai
Ghost of the Mountain
China Desert
Environment
Weather puts Mongolians in trouble
Arts, Culture & Media
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Arts, Culture & Media
Geo Quiz
Arts, Culture & Media
Geo Quiz
Arts, Culture & Media
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