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 erratic extreme ...

Earliest Evidence of a True Frame Saddle Found in Mongolian Tomb With a Man and Mummified Horse Amazes Researchers The ...

ULAN BATOR, March 24 (Xinhua) -- More than 7,500 head of livestock have been killed in a steppe fire in Mongolia, the country's National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) said on Monday.

On the horizon, a dot of colour appears: a solitary figure astride a horse, cloaked in a brightly patterned Mongolian robe, the steppe stretching out around him. The image is Mongolian lore ...

Mongolia's severe winter is simply known as a 'zud', which is caused by a dry summer and a particularly cold and snowy winter leading to massive deaths of livestock. About 30 per cent of Mongolia ...

Across Mongolia, more than seven million animals were killed, over a tenth of the country's total. "Our livestock used to cover all of our expenses, and we used to live very nicely," Zandan told ...

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 ...