Earth and air shape Mongolia - CSMonitor.com: "Livestock in Mongolia outnumber humans 15 to 1, and one-third of the country's 3 million people still rely on animal husbandry for their living. But climate change and record-breaking cold winters in the past two decades have wiped out whole herds and forced hundreds of thousands of bereft nomads to flock to Ulaanbaatar, the capital city, in hopes of finding a new start. Now, 70 percent of the city's residents live in ger (yurt) districts – settlements of displaced nomads living without electricity or sanitation – while Ulaanbaatar struggles to provide public utilities to a mushrooming population."
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