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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 had defined ...

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 ...

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 ...

TUV AIMAG, Mongolia — Through three decades of marriage, they have wandered together across the rolling hills of Mongolia’s northern Tuv Province, accompanied by their herd of sheep and stalked by the ...

It was lunchtime on the steppe in Mongolia, the most sparsely populated country on Earth. So when our driver spotted a lone white yurt in the distance, we stopped for a jug of hot sheep's milk tea. It ...

Just another sad casualty of environmental collapse: These before-and-after shots show how deserts are taking over the pastures where animals once grazed. Up to a third of Mongolians live as nomads, ...

Putting a new spin on the term “digital nomad,” U.K. addressing platform what3words has partnered with Airbnb to list stays with Mongolian nomads. The startup’s simplified addressing system is being ...

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 ...

ULAANBAATAR, May 3 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - With about 100 sheep and goats, Jugder Samdan makes just enough to scrape by as a nomadic herder in Mongolia, basking in the sun as he watches over ...

In this Sept. 10, 2011 photo, the sun sets behind a small cluster of nomadic tents, called gers, on the shore of Terkhiin Tsagaan Nuur, also known as White Lake, in central Mongolia. Yak carts, the ...