At the edge of the Himalayas, where Pakistan’s snow-capped peaks rise above dry valleys, villagers have found an ingenious ...

In the frostbitten valleys of Gilgit-Baltistan, farmers are fighting water scarcity by building artificial glaciers shaped like towering cones of ice.

In the frostbitten valleys of Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistani farmers are fighting water scarcity by building artificial glaciers ...

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 ...

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 ...

At the foot of Pakistan's impossibly high mountains whitened by frost all year round, farmers grappling with a lack of water ...

An ice stupa is an artificial glacier that stores waste stream waters so that the water can be used at a later date when supplies are scarce. It is used as a solution to the water crisis faced by ...

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 ...