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Storing frozen water to adapt to climate change

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Man-made ice towers provide water during the growing season in the high-elevation desert in the Himalayas to buffer effects of climate change. Local and international science partnerships are now working to develop technologies to make these ice stupas more efficient.

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Fig. 1: An ice stupa in Ladakh, India, forms before the winter season.

Suryanarayanan Balasubramanian.

Fig. 2: Volume of ice stupa over the course of a year.

Johannes Oerlemans.

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Palmer, L. Storing frozen water to adapt to climate change. Nat. Clim. Chang. 12, 115–117 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41558-021-01260-x

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