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Mongolia

September 2022

  • Lady of the Gobi: trucking coal across the desert to China

    On Mongolia’s coal highway to the Chinese border, truck driver Maikhuu dreams of a better life and financial security for her three children. However, the road from the mines to China is riddled with accidents, toxic pollution, poor hygiene and now,  amid the Covid crisis, drivers face days of quarantine on the border. Trapped in a hazardous industry, Maikhuu's journey reflects the human and environmental costs of Mongolia’s mining boom

May 2022

  • MONGOLIA-ENVIRONMENT-POLLUTION<br>This picture taken on January 16, 2022 shows a man watching smoke hanging over houses on a polluted day in Ulaanbaatar, the capital of Mongolia. (Photo by BYAMBASUREN BYAMBA-OCHIR / AFP) (Photo by BYAMBASUREN BYAMBA-OCHIR/AFP via Getty Images)

    Mongolia under pressure to align with Russia and China

  • Hogh society: Mongolia is home to 29m goats. Their coats yield the precious cashmere fibre.

    The Guardian picture essay
    The cashmere trail: On the road with the Mongolian nomadic community

March 2022

  • A Brandt’s vole

    Mongolian rodent fells tall grass to foil predators, study finds

    Brandt’s vole found to engineer ecosystem to scan skies for shrikes and deny them perches

October 2021

  • Fifa

    Fifa criticised over handling of sexual harassment case in Mongolia

    Fifa has been criticised over its handling of complaints of sexual harassment and physical assault in girls’ football after it emerged it had not publicly announced a worldwide ban handed to a coach

July 2021

  • Gobi desert, near Dalanzadgad, Mongolia

    Mongolia is home to the world’s first national park

    Letter: Keith Taylor says Yellowstone in the US is not the first national park to have been established

April 2021

  • Veins of the World

    Veins of the World review – arresting portrait of nomadic life

    Byambasuren Davaa’s gorgeous-looking drama examines the rituals and traditions of Mongolia as their very existence comes under threat

January 2021

  • A herder on horseback searching for his livestock in Tuv province, Mongolia

    Weatherwatch
    Weatherwatch: landlocked Mongolia's distinctive climate

    Country endures long and very cold winters, and capital gets very little snow or rain

September 2020

  • Protesters gather in Ulaanbaatar, the capital of neighbouring Mongolia, against China’s plan to introduce Mandarin-only classes in the autonomous region of Inner Mongolia.

    Inner Mongolia protests at China's plans to bring in Mandarin-only lessons

    Beijing plan to replace Mongolian language in some school subjects sparks fears of cultural assimilation

August 2020

  • Passengers arrive at Chinggis Khaan International Airport in Ulaanbaatar, the capital of Mongolia, in March.

    The people that Covid-19 has cut off from home

    Chinese students, Mongolian tourists and Palestinians from Gaza are still stranded

July 2020

  • A marmot

    Teenage boy dies of bubonic plague in Mongolia after eating marmot

    Two others being treated with antibiotics after death of 15-year-old, health ministry says

June 2020

  • Onon

    The age of extinction
    Cloud cuckoo land? How one bird's epic migration stunned scientists

    When Onon the common cuckoo took off from Mongolia last June no one expected him to make a 26,000km round trip to southern Africa

May 2020

  • GerHub community centre in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia.

    Welcome to the yurt-opolis! How Mongolia is helping its nomads adapt to big city life

  • In the grasslands on the edge of the Altai Mountains in far north-western Mongolia, a Kazakh man heads out to hunt, his golden eagle perched on his arm

    'Be still': 12 images to evoke silence, peace and calm reflection – in pictures

March 2020

  • Disinfectant is sprayed at Sukhbaatar Square in the Mongolian capital, Ulaanbaatar.

    The Guardian view on the global virus threat: don’t abandon the poor

    Editorial: As societies seal themselves off and turn inwards, we must not forget to look beyond our borders

January 2020

  • Members of a Chinese medical team prepare to leave for Wuhan.

    The Guardian view on China and the coronavirus: scrutiny, not stigma

  • Snapshots of life

    The survivors – premature babies then and now

December 2019

  • Closeup of Argali<br>GettyImages-534340906

    Donald Trump Jr killed rare endangered sheep in Mongolia with special permit

    Permit for killing was retroactively issued after Trump met with country’s president

October 2019

  • Brigid Delaney

    In a world made small by smartphones, we crave escape into otherness

    Brigid Delaney
  • The Hu

    Steppe change: how Mongolian rock band the Hu conquered the world

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