Climate change threatens yaks, herding culture in India’s Ladakh | Climate News

With her one-year-old son strapped to her back, Tsering Dolma guides a dozen yaks into a stone-walled corral as dusk settles over the stark mountains of India’s isolated Ladakh region.

Across the vast, wind-swept plains where sparse grass transitions to gravelly foothills and craggy peaks, only a handful of herders tending their livestock break the solitude.

For generations, herders like Dolma have depended on mountain snowmelt to nourish the high-altitude pastures where their animals graze….