Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, home to half the country's children, is the coldest capital on Earth. It also has the most toxic air on the planet — several times the recommended daily average concentration of ...

Daynsaikhan’s ger sits at the very edge of Ulan Bator. Completely surrounded by snow, it appears cold and isolated, just a few meters from an illegal trash site. Inside, however, it is warm and cozy.

We're(1) packed tight in the back of a white Hyundai with no discernible seat belts, heading southwest from Ulanbaatar to the first of the 3 yurt(2) tourist camps that will be our home for much of our ...

As the sun tucks behind the hills near the Mongolian capital of Ulan Bator, Baljirjantsan Otgonseren, 32, walks out of her “Ger,” a traditional Mongolian tent, looking for her daughter. The girl is ...

ULAANBAATAR, Mongolia — I’m a city girl. I did not grow up camping, have never pitched a tent and know nothing of the Girl Scouts beyond Thin Mints or Samoa cookies. Certainly no one would use the ...

A special guest speaker visited an ETSU remote campus for the unveiling of a new addition to the university’s public health simulation lab. A new Mongolian ger has been constructed in the ETSU ...

Many ger residents can access electricity thanks to a government program that offers free electricity at night to ger area residents in an effort to encourage them to use electricity instead of coal.

Text description provided by the architects. Yas Ger is Mongolian, Yas is the meaning of skeleton, Ger is for yurts and home，which means a removable yurt (home). The project is located in a small ...

With one of the world’s fastest growing economies, the true test will be how such growth benefits the people. In Mongolia’s capital, we may just find out. Mongolia enters 2013 as one of the world’s ...