Tag: Mongolia

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  Planting Trees in the Mongolian Desert to Fight Dangerous Dust Storms in Seoul

  Korean activists are spearheading efforts to plant trees in Mongolia, hoping to improve both the lives of nomadic desert herders there and the air quality their families are exposed to back home.

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  Khunu Adds More Soft Himalayan Yak Wool Apparel

  New cosy yak wool garments are perfect for winter

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  All Wrapped up In Mongolian Yak Wool

  All photos: Khunu Indigenous Designs helped find a niche for Alpaca in the western wardrobes, Icebreaker almost singlehandedly rediscovered Merino wool for performance outdoor apparel, Finisterre are saving an unique British breed of sheep from oblivion

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  Grain Production Falling as Soil Erosion Continues

  The thin layer of topsoil that covers much of the earth's land surface is the foundation of civilization. As long as soil erosion on cropland does not exceed new soil formation, all is well. But once it does,

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  Unbelievable Mongolia Unicycle Tour is "Half as Difficult as Biking" (Slideshow)

  If you ever shied away from the challenge of a long distance bike trip, well here's a trip that really isn't for the faint of heart -- or the unskilled.

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  Unbelievable Mongolia Unicycle Tour is "Half as Difficult as Biking"

  If you ever shied away from the challenge of a long distance bike trip, well here's a trip that really isn't for the faint of heart -- or the unskilled. Last summer, Adventure Unicyclist, Bike Asia and Grasshopper Adventures teamed up to host a tour of

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  Mongolian Mining Battle Heats Up With Herder's Death

  The already tense battle over mining in Inner Mongolia has erupted further after a Mongolian herder was run over by a coal truck and killed while trying to block the

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  Mongolia Rescinds Snow Leopard Hunting Proposal

  When there are as few as 3,500 members left of an endangered, and declining, animal species, especially one that lives in harsh conditions full of threats, killing just a few can do real

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  Mining No Golden Opportunity For Turkey, Mongolia

  With few legal or political avenues open to fight environmentally damaging mining, four Mongolian activists took drastic action earlier this fall: They opened fire with hunting rifles on gold-mining equipment owned by two foreign firms.

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  Beyond the Gulf Oil Spill: Five Ongoing Ecological Disasters With No End In Sight

  Living some 6,000 miles away from the Gulf of Mexico, I'm a bit embarrassed to admit that the oil spill often seems like an abstraction to me. A big, big abstraction, but still.

• After Burning for 50 Years, Chinese Coal Fires May Finally Be Extinguished

  Fire in Rujigou coalfield in China. Photo: Anupma Prakash The Coal, The Coal is on Fire, Let the... China has the worst underground coal fires on Earth. These fires, which have sometimes been raging out-of-control for decades, destroy as much as 20-200

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  Mongolia Needs Better Grazing Management To Cope With Future Dzud

  You're forgiven if you missed it, Mongolia being well off most TreeHugger readers' radar, but this winter was the worst experienced on the steppes in the past 30 years, with higher than normal

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  Ultra-Rare Photos of Endangered Snow Leopards in the Wild (Slideshow)

  The endangered snow leopard is famously elusive: Not only do fewer than 7,000 remain in the wild, but the animals are notorious for avoiding humans and camouflaging themselves on rocky ledges.

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  Ultra-Rare Photos of Endangered Snow Leopards in the Wild

  Scientists aren't sure exactly how many snow leopards remain, but one thing's for sure: their numbers are dwindling--estimates range from 3,500-7,000 in the wild. In the mountains of Mongolia, though, a group of scientists from Panthera and the Snow Leo

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  20 Million Mongolian Cattle Could Be Dead by Spring Due to Dzud (UPDATED)

  What's dzud you ask? Well, it's the Mongolian word for the sort of weather they are now experiencing. Roughly translated by Shambala Sun, it's an

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  Will Wave Farms Attract Sharks? Wend Magazine Investigates

  One way to to get a sense of Wend magazine might be to imagine it as the love child spawn by a wild night of passion between Outside magazine and TreeHugger. It's a joyous celebration of being out there amongst the wind, rain and sun, whilst

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  The Colbert Report on Cheap Sweaters, Chinese Goats and Environmental Ruin

  Thanks to the growing number of goats in China, your cashmere sweater is now cheap as hell. But thanks to your sweater, the once green frontier of China's Inner Mongolia looks increasingly like hell too. Those goats, who have grown in number along

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  China's Green Walls Losing the Battle Against Encroaching Deserts

  When we last heard of China's renewed efforts to block a relentlessly advancing Gobi desert and claw back some terrain for its farmers, government officials seemed confident that their "green wall" would prove successful in accomplishing these