ULAN BATOR, Mongolia — Inside the traditional tent home, or ger, of Mongolian nomads, the squinting yak herder proffers a bowl of liquid refreshment. “Vodka,” he says. It hardly looks like vodka, and ...

CHIFENG, CHINA — It’s no longer about the armed warriors, Genghis Khan and the robed nomads prancing through lush greenery on horseback. In China’s barely populated Inner Mongolian grasslands, what ...

Just around the corner from the vast concrete square built to honor the heroes of Mongolia’s communist revolution, a very different kind of revolutionary activity is under way. Their heads bent over ...

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A baby cries for attention while his mother makes tea and tends a stove inside her family’s ger, or yurt. The air inside the heavy canvas walls is thick with the smells of smoke and cheese curd. Two ...

BAYANJARGALAN, Mongolia — The animals that are Mongolia’s lifeblood are dying. Vultures and crows tear at frost-stiffened sheep carcasses scattered across the snowy steppe. Dogs hungrily circle dying ...

Nomadic herders have lived on the Mongolian steppe for centuries. Livestock production is the backbone of Mongolia's economy. But harsh climate conditions and the country's recent transition from ...

Mongolian economic history is rooted in agriculture and livestock herding. The country’s nomads raise and herd livestock and usually move approximately every three months in order to adapt to often ...

Thousands of nomads in northeastern Mongolia are fighting to save their tents and cattle from a huge spreading fire, officials said Monday. “The fire is fierce and is spreading fast” because of high ...

The Mongol Nomads restaurant along Columbia Pike appears to have shut down. The Asian fusion eatery, located at 3202 Columbia Pike in the Arlington Heights neighborhood, appears to have been emptied ...