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Nusrat Rehman can’t wait to be home from school. It’s summertime in the otherwise cold and arid Kargil in Ladakh, where the 10-year-old lives. It’s also the season to harvest her favourite fruit – apricots. When the finishing bell at her primary school rings, Rehman bounds down the hill and crosses the Suru River into her neighbourhood. “I cannot wait to pluck and eat the fresh apricots from our o...
Ladakh’s apricot lifeline challenged by a changing climate | Huntaegis