Chile Borrows Ladakh's Ice Stupas
Glaciologists from Chile have now borrowed Ladakh’s ingenious ‘ice stupas’ to conserve water in a climate change-stricken Andes, and to preserve Andean glaciers.
A chapter from the stellar, award-winning book Marginlands by photojournalist Arati Kumar Rao, outlines how Ladakhi inventor Sonam Wangchuk came up with the concept of ice stupas and successfully implemented it. With increasing pressures from tourism, construction, mining and ill-conceived linear development, will ice stupas continue to be the climate resilience tool for resident communities in the coming years?
Green Humour for The Hindu.
Brilliant! This is the kind of global hands across the oceans we need... not the violence that nations seem to love exporting.