Scientists building artificial glaciers in the Himalayas

In the words of The Sound of Music, “When the Lord closes a door, somewhere He opens a window,” and you can’t get a window much closer to the Almighty than high in the Himalayas. That’s where Sonam Wangchuk is constructing artificial glaciers to help local villagers fend off the ravages of climate change. Built using vertically placed pipes that shoot out glacial meltwater during the spring, which will be frozen into ice towers, these so-called “ice stupas” (a stupa is a mound-like structure to house relics and for meditation in the Buddhist tradition) will be an adaptation measure to help farmers facing acute water scarcity. Here’s a look:

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