Losing The Eternal Blue Sky In Mongolia

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Emily Kwong
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Claire Harbage
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Emily Bogle
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Alyson Hurt
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and
WNYC | Aug 5, 2019

Mongolia is changing. Rivers are dry. Pastureland is giving way to mines. And wintertime smog obscures the famed blue sky. How did Mongolia get here? It's a story of internal migration and economic transformation in an era of climate change.

Explore the visual narrative at https://apps.npr.org/mongolia/

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