Experts raise alarm over worsening crisis threatening mountain communities: 'An urgent need'

Experts raise alarm over worsening crisis threatening mountain communities: 'An urgent need'

People living in remote areas are in severe danger if action isn't taken quickly due to the melting of glaciers. According to the Times of India, the Chorabari glacier, in the Garhwal Himalayas in India, "is retreating at an average rate of nearly 7m per year, according to Doon-based Wadia Institute of Himalayan Geology." What's happening? Dehradun-based activist Amit Gupta filed a right to information query, so WIHG shared its data, "noting tha…