It snowed recently in the Himalayas - late & less. A short term sense of relief is palpable, influencer videos will cover up the severe dangers as this article reminds us yet again of how bad the situation is. Across popular media we are seeing a lot of climate change writing. Will policy & political will match the urgent attention required ?
#himalayas #ClimateChange #WinterDrought #ClimateScience #HimachalPradesh #IndiasNature #HimalayaSpeaks #nature #mountains #India
Colliford reservoir may be at only ~54% capacity, but (the considerably smaller) Siblyback is full.
@privateshufti this article is really wonderful, thank you so much for sharing. The need for and already occurring emergence of new vocabulary has already been a #ClimateDiary theme (#WinterDrought #AtmosphericRivers etc) but Anna Badkhen puts it so well
“Every day spells a new normal, requires our hearts to learn an endless vocabulary.” ❤️
“Low river flows are a serious threat to wildlife as they concentrate pollution, reduce oxygen levels and can affect fish breeding patterns”
Scary to read (in above ⬆️ article)how the #WinterDrought is seriously compounding high #pollution levels in our #rivers resulting from government failures (in this article ⬇️) - multiple crises combining
https://inews.co.uk/news/feargal-sharkey-river-sewage-greed-incompetence-government-failure-2195064
The one-time punk rocker from Derry has become the sharpest thorn in the side of water companies and regulators over Britain's neglected rivers. He tells i why he has taken on this fight - and why he has the skill set to win
Countries across Europe have had exceptionally little rainwater this February, resulting in depleted lakes and rivers. Is this the end of “water abundance” in a historically water-rich continent? Also in northern Italy, Lake Garda’s waterline is 65cm lower than normal for this time of year — its lowest wintertime water level in 30 years. This has revealed
Ramnarayan Kalyanaraman
Richard Turner
Pauline von Hellermann
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