Mongolian Economy and Finance

  Researchers scramble to find and study everyday items preserved for millennia and now at risk. This story was originally published on  The Conversation  and appears here under a Creative Commons license. SEPTEMBER 20 (Atlas Obscura) IN THE WORLD’S HIGH MOUNTAIN regions, life needs ice. From the Rockies to the Himalayas, glaciers and other accumulations of snow and ice persist throughout the year. Often found on shaded slopes protected from the sun, these ice patches transform barren peaks into biological hot spots. As an archaeologist , I value these snow and ice patches for the rare peek they can provide back in time through the fog of alpine prehistory. When people lose objects in the ice, ice patches act as natural deep-freezers. For thousands of years, they can store snapshots of the culture, daily life, technology, and behavior of the people who created these artifacts. Frozen heritage is melting from mountain ice  in every hemisphere . As it does so, sma...

A 1,500-square-kilometer area of Mongolia’s Gurvansaikhan Mountains is home to multiple snow leopards and young, according to a first glance at photographs from last spring’s research cameras.

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On November 5, 2015, 27-year-old researcher, Lkhagvasumberel Tumursukh, known to most as “Sumbee,” left his home in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia a day prior to a trip planned to the South Gobi, to the Tost-Tosonbomba mountain range where he kept watch over about 20 snow leopards he was researching for the Snow Leopard Conservation Foundation and its partner, the Snow Leopard Trust.

To conserve and sustainably manage the scarce water resources of Mongolia, it is imperative that permanent and robust measures are introduced to address these issues.

Herders in the Mongolian Gobi Altai mountains are facing pollution and displacement by an iron ore mine.

Even as the first flock of Amur falcons from Mongolia have reached Pangti village in Wokha district of Nagaland to mark the advent of another migratory season, the scientific community is eagerly awaiting the arrival of ‘Naga’ and ‘Pangti’ — two Amur falcons which were satellite-tagged in Nagaland last year before the Amur falcons started their journey to South Principal Chief Conservator of Forests and head of Forest Force Nagaland, M. Lokeswara Rao told The Hindu that ‘Naga’ and ‘Pangti’ had been tracked in inner Mongolia on Wednesday and the two satellite tagged birds were expected to arrive in Nagaland anytime in October or early November.

A Mongolian moose is not an animal you would typically associate with Kent, with badgers, voles and hedgehogs usually stealing the limelight.

TSETSERLEG, MONGOLIA - This weekend luxury fashion brand Tengri will stage Tsetserleg Festival in one of the world’s most enchanting and unfrequented regions in Mongolia.

As The Asia Foundation recently marked its 20th anniversary in Mongolia , Country Representative Meloney Lindberg sat down with Oyun Sanjasuren, Minister of Environment and Green Development and former Asia Foundation grantee, to discuss the country’s rapid development and efforts to promote responsible mining to protect its natural resources and environment.

Three Przewalski’s horses from Prague Zoo have been flown to Mongolia to begin a new life in their country of origin.

Prague - Three Przewalski horse mares from the Prague zoo were sent to Mongolia, their country of origin, aboard a CASA military transport planes today.

Prague, July 1 (ČTK) — Three Przewalski’s horse mares from Prague zoo were sent to Mongolia, their country of origin, aboard a CASA military transport planes today.

It has been reported that the two satellite tagged Amur Faclons named Pangti and Naga have returned back to Mongolia. However, another Amur Falcom named Wokha seemed to be still stuck in Africa.

The Korea-Mongolia Greenbelt Forestation Project aims to plant some 3,000 hectares of trees to combat drought and desertification in Mongolia.

Last month, members of a Penn research team transformed a parking space on a Philadelphia street into a public park for a day.

Mongolian and international conservationists, including researchers from the Vetmeduni Vienna, have joined forces to raise awareness of the global importance of Mongolia's steppes.

Baku, Fineko/abc.az. Baku hosts the III Session of the Regional Commission for Fisheries & Aquaculture in Central Asia and the South Caucasus (CACFish), created by the Food & Agriculture Organization (FAO).

Mongolian and international conservationists, including researchers from the Vetmeduni Vienna, have joined forces to raise awareness of the global importance of Mongolia´s steppes.

A railway fence now marks the de facto eastern border of the range for the Asiatic wild ass, say conservationists, who warn that migratory habits are under threat from burgeoning human development.