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Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, December 13, 2012
Just one week after its grim warning during the UN climate talks in Doha that the world is on a path towards a four degree-rise in global temperatures, the World Bank is set to approve financing for yet another coal plant. The plant will power a giant mining complex in Mongolia’s South Gobi desert, fuelling climate change and violating the Bank’s own policies, argues a new analysis from advocacy groups (1). More…
Nomad Grandma
Mongolia. I just had the vaguest idea of where Mongolia was when I received a brochure announcing a trip that included Mongolia as well as Yunnan province in China. It sounded so foreign and so inviting. I’d be learning more about Genghis Khan and the Gobi Desert. I’d be sleeping in gers (the age-old nomad dwellings), eating traditional foods, meeting the people, seeing the landscape and finally learning about Inner Mongolia and Outer Mongolia. More…
Oyu Tolgoi, Mongolia
As the world’s fastest growing economy, Mongolia has the most promising untapped deposits of iron, gold, silver and coal in the world–but will it serve as a curse or a blessing?
Where traditional nomadic life once comprised the landscape of the Gobi desert for thousands of years, bus stops and 20-story tall ore extraction shafts now stand among More…
