Local weather change: The villagers constructing 100ft ice towers

Environmental photographer and author Arati Kumar-Rao travels throughout South Asia in all seasons to chronicle the subcontinent’s altering panorama. Right here, in pictures and in her personal phrases phrases, she captures the growing risk local weather change poses to the lives and livelihoods of the Ladakhi folks, who face an unsure future under the melting glaciers of the Himalayan mountains. Kumar-Rao is one in all this yr’s Local weather Pioneers on the BBC 100 Girls record.