In Kashmir, Bellwether Of India’s Changing Climate, Heatwaves, Receding Glaciers, Drying Rivers, Power Cuts & Falling Harvests

Kashmir's cherished houseboats were stranded, rivers ran at historic lows, apple harvests were hit, and power cuts rose during an unusual but recently familiar heatwave—temperatures soared up to 10 deg C above normal—during the hottest September the world has ever recorded. Environmental damage, unregulated construction and government policies have exacerbated the effects of global warming and hit livelihoods in a region that reflects and affects subcontinental weather.