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Nomads move to towns in warming Ladakh
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Climate Migration: Nomads move to towns in warming Ladakh

For decades, Konchok Dorjey grazed the world’s finest cashmere-producing goats in the arid, treeless Kharnak village in India’s Ladakh region, a high mountainous cold desert that borders China and Pakistan.

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Glaciers of the Himalaya and other South Asian mountain ranges are melting
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Glaciers of the Himalaya and other South Asian mountain ranges are melting

The ice that has long defined South Asia's mountain ranges is dissolving into massive new lakes, raising the specter of catastrophic flooding.
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Toxic mine runoff cleanup revives West Virginia waterways and extracts rare earth elements

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EU ocean protection plan draws fire for weak enforcement and lack of binding goals

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Wildfire smoke from Canada continues to choke U.S. cities as climate patterns worsen

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China ramps up solar and wind power as clean energy output shatters global records

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Melting ice and microplastics signal deepening disruption in Antarctica’s climate system