Northern Mongolia’s taiga does not look much like the country many travelers picture first. Instead of open steppe and wide brown grasslands, this is a colder, wetter world of larch forest, marsh, ...

Life on the taiga isn’t easy. There’s a constant threat of wolves. The temperatures (and weather in general) are unpredictable. And good luck with cell phone service – you’re much too far north, and ...

Mongolia is home to unique horse breeds that are specially adapted to its harsh climate and terrain. The Mongolian horse is ...

Mongolian life from the beginning of the 20th century to today is reconstructed through 3 authentic gers (traditional Mongolian yurts or tents): under feudal (Manchu Dynasty during the early 20th ...

On a frigid morning in January 2000, Oyutan Gonchig rose at first light to check on his animals. A blanket of snow — over a foot deep — had fallen in the night. He shoveled himself out of his ger, a ...

In the windswept steppe of northeastern Mongolia, archaeologists have unearthed a rare window into daily life along the medieval frontier of the Liao Empire. Excavations at a remote garrison site ...

SUKHBAATAR, Mongolia — In the midst of barren sandy land scattered with dry shortgrass, a vast Scotch pine tree forest swallows the viewer into greenery. A total of 11 million trees span 3,250 ...

Herders bury animal carcasses in 2010 in Mongolia's Dundgovi province. A decade ago, an extreme winter — known in Mongolia as a dzud — claimed the lives of 22% of the nation's livestock and sped up ...