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Aid agencies brace for devastating Mongolian 'dzud' this winter

2016-03-02 11:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Reuters: Global aid agencies are responding to a call for assistance by Mongolia as harsh winter weather raises fears for the safety and livelihoods of the country's traditional pastoralists, who have already been hit hard by a drought last year. Dry weather has scorched most of Mongolia's wheat crop and now mass animal deaths due to a freezing winter, locally known as "dzud", are threatening more pain for the country, where farming accounts for about 13 percent of the economy. The last dzud in 2009-2010...

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