A photo series on ice stupas — artificial glaciers in the northern Indian Himalayas — recently won first place in the 2024-25 Onewater’s Walk of Water: Water Towers photo story contest.

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 ...

Ladakh’s fragile ecosystem is at the verge of facing an unprecedented water crisis with the region’s agricultural lifeline heavily reliant on glacier meltwater. Over the past two decades, the alarming ...