Mongolia, a land of vast steppes and a rich nomadic heritage, is facing an unexpected challenge: air pollution. As the country urbanizes, coal-fired heating and industrial emissions have turned smog ...

Mongolia's nomads are raising an increasing number of cashmere goats. The goats' soft undercoats provide the raw wool for luxury cashmere fabric, and is an important cash income. But this rise has ...

In Mongolia the effects are stark ... and the loans he took out to keep feeding a smaller, hardier herd of goats mean he now struggles to make ends meet. Both his daughters were supposed to ...