![]() ![]() ![]() The Union government’s own report claims that the region has gotten warmer by 1.5 degrees Celsius between 1951-2014. Climate change and global warming further exacerbate the already precarious situation. One cannot forget the devastation that flash floods in Kedarnath caused in 2013, when more than 5,000 lives were lost.įrequent forest fires, flash floods, cloud bursts, earthquakes and landslides in the region are evidence of it being in an extremely fragile and vulnerable zone geographically. The ferocious October flash floods that claimed at least 54 lives this year in Uttarakhand is another recent incident. This is not the only natural disaster to have claimed lives and livelihood in the Himalayas. They also attribute the massive slope failure to “regional climate and related changes in frozen ice that interacted in a complex way with the geological features of the region”. Reports claim that the slope movement that caused the avalanche began way back in 2016. ![]() This disaster was caused due to a large avalanche dislodged from the Ronti peak that led to flooding in the Chamoli district. Of the missing and dead, 140 were workers at the Tapovan Hydropower Plant site. On February 7 this year, Uttarakhand’s Chamoli district in the outer Garhwal Himalayas witnessed one of its major natural disasters in recent years that left over 200 killed or missing. ![]()
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