Half-hour hailstorms, season-long losses: how climate change is reshaping Kashmir’s apple orchards
Rising temperatures and erratic weather are increasing hail events, damaging crops at their most critical stage and deepening risks for growers
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Short, intense hailstorms are devastating Kashmir’s apple orchards, with climate change driving more frequent storms during the critical flowering stage. Farmers face season-long losses, weakened trees, mounting debt and limited access to protection or insurance, exposing the region’s apple-dependent economy to escalating climate risks.
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OnlineFirst - "Speculative sovereignty and militarized ecologies: Flower bombs and political trees in Kashmir" by Omer Aijazi:
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