The final day in Ulaanbaatar delivered explosive judo. Okada, Sampaio, Savytskiy, Fontaine and Mongolia’s own Batkhuyag took ...

Mongolia lit up Day 2 with two Grand Slam golds at home. Bold and Odgerel thrilled the crowd, while Japan’s Terada and Oino ...

Day 1 of the Ulaanbaatar Grand Slam delivered spectacular action. Japan’s Kondo, Shirakane, and Fujihiro struck gold, while ...

Many American schoolchildren grow up learning that Yellowstone was the world’s first national park. But across the globe in Mongolia, just south of the capital, Ulaanbaatar, a mountain holds a claim ...

While Ulaanbaatar’s outdoor smog draws international attention, many children are also breathing dangerously polluted air inside their homes and classrooms. In winter, ...

Ulaanbaatar is one of the world's most heavily polluted cities—in December it experienced pollution levels five times higher than in Beijing. For families, ...

Winter nights in Ulaanbaatar can drop to minus 20 degrees Fahrenheit. Many residents without electricity burn coal to heat their homes, leading to toxic air and health problems.

In a damp, single room in a disused bathhouse in the Sansar area of eastern Ulaanbaatar, 90-year-old Yuule Vandan cares for her disabled son and worries how he will survive without her.

This is, in part, what prompted British photographer and director Alex de Mora to capture some of the scene’s colorful characters in “Straight Outta Ulaanbaatar,” a documentary and book that ...