Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Mongolia is freezing through its harshest winter in half a century with extreme conditions killing more than 4.7 million animals ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In this photo released by Mongolian Red Cross Society, a Mongolian herdsman prepares wood to provide heating for the family ger ...

The icy peaks of Jargalant Mountain are supposed to belong to snow leopards, whose numbers have dwindled to fewer than 1,000 in Mongolia, but hard-pressed herders are increasingly pushing into the ...

Mongolian herders have endured months of extreme cold, known as the “dzud”, that have already claimed the lives of about 4.7 million livestock animals, according to Mongolia’s Emergency Operations ...

Herders in Mongolia have dealt with unpredictable weather, but as the climate becomes more erratic, they are forced to travel further and further to manage it. The nomadic herders make up a third of ...

For much of the last ten years, archaeologist William Taylor has spent his time in Mongolia. The country is famous for its pastoral communities — people who have found ways to thrive in some of the ...

Mongolia is freezing through its harshest winter in half a century with extreme conditions killing more than 4.7 million animals and threatening the livelihoods and food supply of thousands of people, ...

HANOI, Vietnam — An extreme weather phenomenon known as the dzud has killed more than 7.1 million animals in Mongolia this year, more than a tenth of the country’s entire livestock holdings, ...