Over a year after a devastating winter wiped out virtually his entire sheep flock, herder Zandan Lkhamsuren is still ...

Herders in Mongolia are undergoing an unusually harsh winter — or at least, one that used to be unusually harsh. “Dzud” winters feature a punishing combination of extreme cold, heavy snow ...

“I come from a herder community, I still own 300 sheep,” the 32-year-old former Mongolian government official said on Monday at the annual WEF meeting in Davos, Switzerland. It was a fitting ...

Research Location: Ikh Nart, Mongolia Conservation Partner: Mongolian Conservation Initiative The vast grasslands of Mongolia support globally important wildlife species and sustain the livelihoods ...

This is the Urtiin Duu, or "long song," a Mongolian vocal tradition recognized by UNESCO in 2005 as a shared intangible ...

"It's just one downside of herders' lives," he said stoically. "But I'm sure we can recover." The problem for Zandan -- and other agricultural workers that make up a third of Mongolia's population ...

Herder Zandan Lkhamsuren puts up a piece of cloth to keep goats warm at night in central Mongolia Jade GAO Infographic showing the extent of permafrost in Mongolia in 2016, compared to 1974.

Kharkhorin (Mongolia) (AFP) – 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 ...