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

Climate change in the Indian region of Ladakh has shrunk glaciers and made ... Wangchuk built a 64-foot-tall “ice stupa”—an artificial glacier made by piping mountain streams into a Ladakhi ...

To date, dozens of ice stupas have been built across villages in Ladakh’s cold desert, supplying water to hundreds of hectares of farmland in a region that receives just 100 mm (4 inches ...

It was built by the Ladakh and Japanese Buddhists. It was built to promote world peace and prosperity and to commemorate the 2500 years of Buddhism. Timings for Shanti Stupa Closed now 1st January ...

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 ...