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Today in Focus

Ulaanbaatar: a warning from the coldest capital on Earth

Today in Focus

The Guardian

Daily News, News

4.65.7K Ratings

🗓️ 11 July 2025

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Tracey McVeigh heads to Mongolia to find out about the country’s increasingly brutal winters and dry summers, while Badruun Gardi reflects on how the changes threaten the nomadic way of life. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/infocus

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This is The Guardian.

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Today, a warning from the coldest capital on Earth.

0:16.0

Today in Focus is supported by London Business School.

0:22.6

London Business School believes that difference drives progress.

0:26.6

That's why the school is committed to bringing together people who see the world in radically unique ways.

0:33.6

By sharing and learning from one another, we can tackle problems with fresh eyes.

0:39.8

Embracing difference can empower us all to thrive and succeed no matter what challenges we face in the world of business.

0:48.1

London Business School is one of the most global business schools in the world,

0:52.8

with alumni based in over 160 countries.

0:56.5

Their growing scholarship portfolio is key in helping to reduce barriers to entry and ensuring

1:03.6

LBS attracts and welcomes the best and brightest of candidates, regardless of background or

1:10.3

circumstances.

1:12.0

Find out how difference drives progress.

1:15.5

Search London Business School or London.edu. Once upon a time, actually, for the vast majority of human history, people lived as nomads.

1:43.3

In Mongolia, one third of the country still does, herding bands of hundreds of animals

1:50.0

across the country's vast and pristine grasslands.

1:55.0

But this way of life that is so essentially human in 2025 is getting harder.

2:03.6

More and more Mongolians are trading the nomadic life for the big city, Ulan Batore.

2:09.6

And there, they're facing a shocking you problem.

2:20.5

From The Guardian, I'm Michael Safi.

2:23.9

Today in focus, Mongolia's poisoned air.

2:35.6

Tracy McVey, you're the editor of one of the parts of the Guardian that ends up producing our most interesting stories, the global development section.

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