The country’s seminomadic herders have used tentlike, portable homes for millennia. Photographer Matt Dutile visited a few to ...

Pope Francis has praised Mongolia’s tradition of religious freedom dating to the times of its founder, Genghis Khan, during the first-ever papal visit to the Asian nation.

UNICEF Innovation and partners are researching ways to adapt the ger, a traditional Mongolian dwelling, to help reduce fuel costs, mitigate the country's air pollution problem and reduce the ...

Welcome to the coldest capital city on earth — Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia — where the temperature can drop to minus 20 degrees Fahrenheit at night. The city's population has nearly tripled since ...

TOV AIMAG, Mongolia — A growing pile of sheep bones sits in a bucket in the back of the ger like bloody cord wood. My guide and a family of Mongolian nomads are preparing my dinner, the long ...

What may be most distinctive thing about traditional Mongolian nomad life is what’s not in the ger. No refrigerator, no running water, no toilet, no air-conditioning, no wine cooler, no ...

As Ulaanbaatar’s population swells, nonprofits are mobilizing to create sustainable solutions to infrastructural issues that pose safety risks and health hazards.

Sunset over a ger at the Tsagaan Sum hot springs and tourist camp in Khoton Soum, Arkhangai province, Mongolia.

A Gallup survey ranks countries based on degree of "social connectedness" people feel with friends, family, neighbors, colleagues, even strangers. We asked Mongolians why they think they top the list.

Stanley Stewart revisits the Mongolian steppes of his past and immerses himself again in a world of wild horses, chain-smoking shamans, and the haunting songs of nomads.

On the outskirts of Ulaanbaatar, a nomadic family of herders is sitting outside their ger (the family tent commonly called a "yurt" in the West) watching Bloomberg TV…on a high-definition flat ...