Grace Brown

Severe air pollution chokes Mongolia amid harsh winters

With thousands of families burning coal to survive in arctic temperatures, Mongolia is now home to the most poisonous air on the planet.

Winter hits many Mongolians hard

Mongolia was only recently a rising economic star, but a downturn in China has hit its neighbour hard, and now poverty is rising, even as its freezing winter sets in.

Key Mongolian freshwater source faces fuel contamination

Known in Mongolia as the "dark blue pearl," Lake Khuvsgal is Mongolia's deepest and purest source of fresh water. But it is now under threat.

Mongolian reindeer herders' way of life under threat

In the vast and wild forests of northern Mongolia, a centuries-old way of life is migrating closer to modernity.