I'm at the Ten Thousand Camel Festival, an annual celebration of the fluffy golden-haired Bactrian camel, which is found almost exclusively on the central Eurasian Steppe.

A 2019 study indicated that “ [t]he Egiin Gol Hydropower Project (HPP), located on the Eg River, a tributary of the Selenge River, 580 km upstream from Lake Baikal, would respond especially to ...

Mongolia is an outdoor lover’s dream — and Lake Khovsgol National Park is the perfect place to soak it all in. Here's how to plan your trip.

Despite including the word “state” in its name, this entity was initially created as an “autonomous” constituent of Russia that included the lands of Buryat tribes on either side of Lake Baikal but ...

“The protection of Baikal can be seriously reduced so that in Mongolia, which supplies this purest water to Baikal through the Selenga River, there are already state district power plants there, some ...

Frozen water isn’t nearly as flat as you might imagine, which becomes an issue when you’re crossing 160km of it on a bicycle. Around me, huge, fractured slabs of Lake Khovsgol, in its solid ...

Tucked away in the remote hills of south-east Siberia where Russia borders China and Mongolia, Baikal, the world's deepest and oldest lake, is revered in Russia as a national treasure.

Also, we buy 90 percent of our coal and petrol from Russia. All other consumer goods come from China.” Mongolia gained independence in 1921, after nearly 300 years of rule by China’s Qing Dynasty.

A day after Russian President Vladimir to boost the armies fighting in Ukraine, officials arrived at Alexander Bezdorozhny's house with draft papers ordering him to present himself for service.

The ancient Khuvsgul Lake in Mongolia holds nearly seventy per cent of the country’s fresh water supply At the 34th session of the International Coordinating Council of the Man and the Biosphere ...

Khuvsgul Lake in Mongolia holds nearly 70 per cent of the country’s freshwater or 0.4 percent of the world’s total. Khuvsgul Lake is 1,645 metres above the sea level, 136 km long and 262 ...