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The arrest of the leaders of the Mongolian environmental movement: The fate of people and rivers in Mongolia under threat.

Last week, seven key leaders of the Movement of the Joint Mongolian Rivers and Lakes (ODMR) and the Movement Gal Undesten ("Fire Nation") were arrested by police and detained. At the same time, mining companies, whose illegal activities in water protection zones of rivers was halted in June ekoaktivistami, resumed their destructive activities immediately after the arrest of leaders [...]

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Gold mining in Mongolia struck on the ecology of Lake Baikal

"Gold Rush" in Mongolia struck on Lake Baikal
29/04/2010

Foreign mining companies are changing the landscape of Mongolia. As a result, development and mining operations at the source of rivers and water protection zones of water bodies vanish there hundreds of rivers and lakes, and Mongolia itself is gradually turning into desert. Mongolian and Russian environmentalists have supported the main tributary of Lake Baikal - a transboundary river Selenga and [...]

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Mongolian environmentalists went on hunger strike

Members of the Movement for the Protection of rivers require a law on the protection of waterways, Mongolia. For support, they turned to Irkutsk and Buryat colleagues, because the Selenga, originated in southern neighbors, empties into the lake.
According to Mongolian environmental threat of shallowing of the river poses an immediate threat to the lake.
July 2 representatives of public organizations of Mongolia, members of the Movement for the Protection of [...]

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Archaeologists have unearthed in Mongolia's oldest rabbit

Scientists from the University of Berlin Humboldt (Humboldt Universität) found fossils in Mongolia, the oldest representative of a family of rabbits aged 55 million years.
This type is called Gomphos elkema, he looked like a modern rabbit. For example, the hind legs found an animal - more than twice the length of the front and, apparently, Gomphos jumped like a modern rabbit.
The former finds animals of [...]

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New carnivorous dinosaurs from Mongolia

Two new species of predators of the Cretaceous period was subjected to systematic biological research team of paleontologists led by Alan Turner (Alan Turner), a paleontologist at the American Museum of Natural History (American Museum of Natural History). It is interesting that one of these things belongs to flightless dinosaurs to the smallest of all known to science.
One species - Dinosaur Tsaagan mangas-is representative of the family [...]

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Eolian city

Eolian - so windy, from the Greek Aeolus - wind. Eolian city - a city created by the forces of wind work. And the reader may ask how the wind can create a city?
City - a set of buildings of varying shape, size and destination, located on the sides of streets, alleys, squares, parks and gardens, often adorned with monuments to honor outstanding persons or events. [...]

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