19th Annual Smithsonian Magazine Photo Contest Altered Images
Mongolia

Mongolia is one of the countries most vulnerable to global warming. In the last 70 years, its temperatures have climbed three times faster than the world’s average, rising more than 2 degrees centigrade and thereby surpassing the global threshold set by the Paris Agreement. Every year, summers and winters in Mongolia are becoming harsher. In 2017, the country saw the hottest summer in half a century, during which two thirds of the country were plagued by drought, while desertification has already turned a quarter of its land to desert. Without sufficient grass to eat, animals lack the fodder to survive the world’s coldest winter, when temperatures plunge below minus 40 degrees centigrade.

Photo Detail
Date Taken: 07.2021
Date Uploaded: 11.2021
Photo Location: nomads (no city), Mongolia
Copyright: © Nathalie Montagu Daoust