Inter Press Service: His is a classic case of a man’s fight against nature in this trans-Himalayan region of Ladakh, as he battles climate change. In this region that seldom sees rains, the glaciers–for ages the fountainheads of water for this arid region–are receding at a rapid rate. Farmers find it difficult to grow crops in their agricultural lands, with water in extremely short supply when it is most needed to irrigate the fields. But 74-year-old Chewang Norphel, a former government civil …