Over 70% of Mongolia's nomads have modernized their traditional tent homes with solar panels, ... almost 70 percent of nomadic people now have access to electricity thanks to newly installed solar ...

Mongolia's former nomads cling to tent cities. Geoffrey York Africa Bureau Chief. Ulan bator. Published May 21, 2002. ... it's good enough for the city dwellers of modern Mongolia.

ULAN BATOR (Reuters) - Creeping up over the dry hills, the shanty towns of Ulan Bator mark the ever-spreading line where the city meets the Mongolian steppes. Known as "ger-towns", these impromptu ...

For most people Mongolia is synonymous with the vast steppe, galloping horses and nomadic felt tents. Reality is less idyllic. In the least populated country of the world, about half of the 2.6 ...

On Mongolia's vast grasslands, time is measured not in minutes or hours but by how long it takes milk to become cream, when a family's yaks decide to amble home for the night, the red embers in an ...

For most people Mongolia is synonymous with the vast steppe, galloping horses and nomadic felt tents. Reality is less idyllic. In the least populated country of the world, about half of the 2.6 ...