An earthquake measuring 4.9 on the Richter scale hit Zuunbayan County, Dornogobi Province, in eastern Mongolia Friday morning, the Mongolian Astronomical and Geophysical Research Institute said.
A researcher from the institute said the epicenter was initially determined at 44.5 degrees latitude and 109.6 degrees longitude, 30 km west of Zuunbayan County and 250 km from
Heat waves will continue to sweep across many parts of Mongolia until Aug. 25, Mongolia's meteorological authorities reported Saturday.
With temperatures at 36-39 degrees Celsius, the eastern part of the country and the areas along River Orhon and River Selenge in northern Mongolia will experience a sultry weather in the summer heat, reported Mongolia's Institute of Me
ULAN BATOR, Jun. 12, 2010 (Xinhua News Agency) -- Mongolia had set a quota of 240 saker falcons for export this year, Minister of Environment, Nature and Tourism L. Gansuh said Friday.
Speaking on a new hunting regulation at a press conference, the minister said foreigners would be allowed to hunt 240 of the most prized birds of prey, which cost 12,000 U.S. dollars each.
SOUTH HANGAY PROVINCE, Mongolia — They call it the zud, a prolonged period of heavy snows and paralyzing cold that adds to the challenges of living on a treeless expanse nearly the size of Alaska. But this year's zud followed a punishing summer drought that stunted the grass and left Munkhbat Lkhagvasuren's herds emaciated and his family in debt after borrowing money for fodder.
UYANGA, Mongolia—Before he can fully tend to his dwindling herd, Demberel has to bury the dead cows, goats and sheep in earth barely thawed from Mongolia's worst winter in decades.
Fetid and fly-ridden, the carcasses lie stacked by the hundreds around a burial pit dug by Demberel and a dozen fellow herders. A truck brings dozens more carcasses. Others lie in piles or strewn in n
(Reuters) - The winter camps of southern Mongolia are quiet during this year's breeding season, after an unusually harsh winter wiped out herds and left nomadic families with little but debt to their name.
The bitter winter killed an estimated 8 million animals, according to the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), leaving exhausted, poverty-stricken herders st
Beijing - Chinese police arrested two Mongolian citizens after finding two snow leopard skins and a snow leopard skull hidden inside their jeep at a border checkpoint, state media said Tuesday.
Police in the remote Alxa League of north China's Inner Mongolia region spent 10 hours searching the vehicle that had more than 40 hidden compartments, the official Xinhua news agency reported.
By James Sawyer
Imagine trying to survive in temperatures below minus 50 degrees F (minus 47 degrees C) for more than a month.
It happened in Mongolia this winter--weather so cold that livestock and other animals were dying painfully at a rate of a quarter of a million deaths every week, resulting in the loss of millions of animals over the season.
Imagine
