Generational families have no choice but to accept the erasure of their ancient Indigenous settlements. \u201cThe mountain is more than land. It is our identity, our history. The water spirits we worship inspired our folk songs and Indigenous wisdom, and polluting means you are being disrespectful to the water spirits,\u201d says Lhazom. \u201cIt\u2019ll be a challenge to convince the people to live in safer places, but I don’t want them to be in a place that could kill them.\u201d<\/p>\n
Growing Artificial Glaciers\u00a0<\/p>\n
Northwest of Lhazom\u2019s home, in Ladakh, India, where \u201340\u00b0winds whip through a remote desert on an 11,500-ft. shelf in the shadow of the Himalaya\u2019s highest northern peaks, the people rely on a single water source: melting glacial ice, now covered in soot from vehicles carrying adventure tourists acclimating in its capital of Leh.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The region\u2019s unbearably beautiful and dry glacial-dependent settlements could become the next Himalayan ghost villages\u2014joining the 2,000 already abandoned from drying glaciers, water scarcity, drought, and unpredictable monsoons in places like Spiti and the Uttarakhand, India, and the Upper Mustang of Nepal.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Generational families have no choice but to accept the erasure of their ancient Indigenous settlements. \u201cThe mountain is…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":670832,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[246,61,60,709,82,476,79685],"class_list":["post-670831","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-environment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-magazine","tag-science","tag-solutions","tag-time-2030"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/670831","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=670831"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/670831\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/670832"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=670831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=670831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=670831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}