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 ...

"The melting glacier is a message to each and every village in the Himalayan region that they will have to move to a better water source one day." Rural communities across the region of Ladakh are ...

The eastern Himalayas have been witness to a major ... The researchers used remote sensing and geographic information systems to map glacier boundaries, even in debris-covered areas, from Tawang ...