内容摘要：The parties met Monday with a federal mediation board in Washington to discuss the dispute, but both sides and the board have declined to comment on whether any progress was made or if more talks have been scheduled.

The parties met Monday with a federal mediation board in Washington to discuss the dispute, but both sides and the board have declined to comment on whether any progress was made or if more talks have been scheduled.

Former nomad Dawa Tundup sits inside a mosquito net along with his wife Tashi Lamo outside their home in Kharnakling village near Leh town in the cold desert region of Ladakh, India, Thursday, Sept. 15, 2022. (AP Photo/Mukhtar Khan)Former nomad Dawa Tundup sits inside a mosquito net along with his wife Tashi Lamo outside their home in Kharnakling village near Leh town in the cold desert region of Ladakh, India, Thursday, Sept. 15, 2022. (AP Photo/Mukhtar Khan)

Dorjey pointed out that the village in recent years had received considerable attention as authorities built some prefab huts for nomads and spruced up animal feed facilities. But he said he was skeptical by experience that such facilities would stop migration.“There are some facilities that were not there when I was living here. But there are also some other regressive changes that have occurred,” Dorjey said.The worst, he said, is unpredictability of the weather and shortage of water in recent years.

Many of Kharnak’s pasturelands have become barren owing to unusual weather in recent years. And the multiple glaciers that covered the surrounding high peaks have shrunk drastically in last two decades causing water shortages, the shepherds said.“Few small ones that rested on mountain peaks in my years of nomadic life have now almost entirely disappeared,” Dorjey said pointing to a barren mountain range in Kharnak.

Dubbed as a part of water tower of Asia, Ladakh is home to thousands of glaciers, including Siachen glacier that is the longest outside the Polar region. Some of the region’s glaciers also feed the Indus Basin Irrigation System, one of the world’s largest that services India and China and considered a lifeline for agricultural land in Pakistan.

But they are receding at an alarming rate, threatening the water supply of millions of people.that offered little clarity on how the U.S. economy is managing through

The S&P 500 rose 0.4%, enough to extend itsto a fourth day and to pull within 3.7% of its all-time high set earlier this year. The Dow Jones Industrial Average added 271 points, or 0.6%, and the Nasdaq composite slipped 0.2%.

Stocks got a lift from easing Treasury yields in the bond market. They fell after the economic reports suggested the Federal Reserve may have more room to cut interest rates later this year to bolster the U.S. economy if it weakens under the weight of high tariffs.But the reports did little to spell out whether the economy is falling toward a recession, as many investors had been fearing, or shaking off the uncertainty after Trump called off many of his tariffs temporarily. The headliner reports said