ニューヨーク・タイムズのインスタグラム(nytimes) - 3月17日 22時38分

With little work available in smaller cities, hundreds of thousands of Mongolians have left behind the nomadic herding lifestyle in the hope of finding opportunities in its capital, Ulan Bator. These predominantly lower- to middle-income migrant workers have settled in unplanned districts in the north of the city and live in gers, or yurts. To stay warm during winter, when temperatures remain well below freezing for weeks at a time, residents burn coal. Lots of it. In recent years, over a million tons of raw coal per year. The result: #UlanBator has surpassed notoriously polluted megacities like Beijing and New Delhi to become the capital city with the highest recorded levels of air pollution. This January, a station in Ulan Bator recorded a pollution reading that was 133 times what the @who considers safe, and more than 6 times what it considers hazardous. To improve the city’s air quality, Prime Minister Ukhnaagiin Khurelsukh announced in January that the transportation and use of raw coal in Ulan Bator would be banned starting next April. But many are skeptical. @bdentonphoto photographed this trainer exercising several horses in preparation for the traditional horse races that typically begin in March, when daytime temperatures typically start to inch above freezing. Visit the link in our profile to read more.

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