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Russians crossing land borders into Mongolia, Kazakhstan and Georgia to avoid being drafted into the Ukraine war are experiencing very different receptions.
Through its Belt and Road Initiative, China has become the world’s largest country-to-country lender. A new study shows that more than half of its loans threaten sensitive lands or Indigenous people.
From the high Yukon to the mountains of Central Asia, melting ice exposes fragile ancient artifacts that tell the story of the past – and provide hints about how to respond to a changing climate.
Low levels of immunity and high levels of mixing are a perfect setting for the next big outbreak.
In Inner Mongolia, China’s new bilingual education policy comes at the expense of Mongolian language and culture.
We found evidence of irreversible ecological breakdown millions of years ago – this time round, we should heed the warning signs.
Archaeologists have long argued over when and how people first domesticated horses. A decade ago, new techniques appeared to have provided answers – but further discoveries change the story again.
Two scholars report on how conservation policies designed to protect reindeer are harming the nomadic Tsaatan people who rely on them.
Mineral-rich Mongolia is experiencing a mining boom, but its growth is creating distrust and conflict with herder communities.
New research shows that the treatment of drug resistant-TB can be reduced from the current duration of 20 to 24 months to less than a year.
Mongolia’s important historical sites are under threat from climate change and looting - and one exacerbates the other.
While democracy is struggling globally and especially in Asia, Mongolians continue to vote and engage.
Studies of animal-human interactions in various settings could perhaps help prevent bird flu and the mass slaughter of animals it inevitably leads to.
India wants closer engagement with its neighbours as it aspires to become a global manufacturing hub. Narendra Modi’s visits to China, Mongolia and South Korea are all about promoting this agenda.
Plans to dam Lake Baikal’s most important tributary could kick off an international dispute.
This latest part of our series on Russia’s relations with its neighbours focuses on the huge empty land of Mongolia, Moscow’s original Soviet satellite state in the 1920s. These days it sits on the verge…
The Gobi Desert in East Asia conjures images of a remote landscape, with nomads riding across the steppe. In fact, today it is home to herders and farmers, the world’s fastest-growing economy, vast copper…
The movement of desert sands and dust in Northern China is controlled by one of the world’s largest rivers, new research…
AUSTRALIA IN THE ASIAN CENTURY – A series examining Australia’s role in the rapidly transforming Asian region. Delivered in partnership with the Australian government. Here, Dr Craig Mark - currently based…
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Researcher in Geography, University of Oxford
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Assistant Professor and Curator of Archaeology, University of Colorado Boulder
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Professor, Faculty of International Studies, Kyoritsu Women's University
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Senior Research Fellow in Global Health, University of Southampton
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Associate Professor and Keidanren Chair in Japanese Research, University of British Columbia
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Professor of Environmental Change, UCL
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Director of the Mongolia and Inner Asia Studies Unit, University of Cambridge
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Research and Teaching, University of Sydney
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Distinguished Professor of Environmental History, Michigan Technological University
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Directeur du laboratoire d'anthropologie sociale, Collège de France
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Endeavor Fellow, Flinders University; Director, NOMAD Science, Flinders University
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Professor of Global Development Policy and Director, Global Development Policy Center, Boston University
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