India's solar-powered nomads look to the skies

Wandering herders embrace green technology to survive climate change

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Tenzin Sonam, 15, stands outside his family’s tent in Ladakh’s Changthang region, holding a solar-powered lamp -- a symbol of change and adaptation in the high Himalayas. (Photo by Sajad Hameed)

SAJAD HAMEED and REHAN QAYOOM MIR

LEH, Ladakh -- "Julley!" The cheerful greeting echoes through the windy Changthang plateau, in India's Himalayan territory of Ladakh, where wandering Changpa nomads have set up yak- and goat-hair tents beneath the open sky.

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