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How the Climate Crisis Is Impacting Mongolia

Provided by: The Climate Reality Project |Published on: October 23, 2025

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Synopsis

This article from The Climate Reality Project describes how climate change affects Mongolia’s people and ecosystems, including harsher winters and summer heat, desertification, water scarcity, and pressures on pastoral livelihoods and biodiversity.
Students will understand cause-and-effect links between climate hazards and human systems.

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Subjects: Earth and Space Sciences, Geography

Authors: The Climate Reality Project

Region: Asia

Languages: English

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Positives

The piece clearly connects climate hazards to social and economic impacts, supporting cross-curricular discussions in geography, civics, and environmental science.
The article offers timely examples that invite evidence-based arguments about policy choices and community adaptations.

Prerequisites

Students should understand basic climate drivers and how to read expository texts.
Teachers should preview terms such as desertification, resilience, and adaptation.
Teachers may want to print the article for use offline.

Differentiation & Implementation

Small groups can create a two-column table of hazards and responses, then propose one local action that parallels the strategies discussed.
For extension, compare impacts in Mongolia with another region and evaluate which adaptation strategies transfer well and why. Students may want to compare the impacts in Mongolia with those in the United States, such as in Wisconsin.
Teachers can make many connections to the Sustainable Development Goals. After reviewing the goals, students can note how climate change and its impacts are related to the goals, citing evidence from the article. If students are unfamiliar with the SDGs, teachers can use this guide to find relevant resources.

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The Climate Reality Project

Climate Reality Project seeks to catalyze a global solution to the climate crisis by making urgent action a necessity across every sector of society. They recruit, train, and mobilize people to become powerful activists, providing the skills, campaigns, and resources to push for aggressive climate action and high-level policies that accelerate a just transition to clean energy.

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