And while overgrazing has long contributed to desertification on the steppe, climate change is making things even worse. Droughts in the summers have made it harder to fatten animals and stockpile ...

Discovering the Scythians -- The Scythians as others saw them -- Landscapes with people -- Enter the predatory nomads -- The rise of the Pontic Steppe Scythians: 700-200 BC -- Crossing the Carpathians ...

Upon the open grasslands of what is now Kazakhstan, there once stood a Bronze Age settlement that may have served as a center of exchange and power around 1600 BC. The settlement — called Semiyarka ...

Over a year after a devastating winter wiped out virtually his entire sheep flock, herder Zandan Lkhamsuren is still reckoning with the damage wrought by Mongolia's increasingly erratic extreme ...