This story appears in the April 2017 issue of National Geographic magazine. High in the Himalaya, a desert is turning green. Climate change in the Indian region of Ladakh has shrunk glaciers and ...

LEH: Technology is breaking new ground in the arid reaches of Ladakh. This summer, it will automate water supply from its ice ...

HDFC Bank, through its CSR initiative Parivartan, has brought 2 lakh acres of unirrigated land under irrigation, enhancing ...

Tsering Angchuk, a farmer from the village of Stase-Dho, helped build a 22-meter-high (72-feet-high) ice stupa. Image courtesy of Ciril Jazbec for Onewater. The stupas are constructed using pipes ...

Since 2018, more than 80 ice stupas have come up, 27 of them in the last year, with villages seeing in them an effective solution to water scarcity ...