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JOSHIMATH, India (AP) — Inside a shrine overlooking snow-capped mountains, Hindu priests heaped spoonfuls of puffed rice and ghee into a crackling fire. They closed their eyes and chanted in

<div class="at-above-post addthis_tool" data-url="https://www.metro.us/a-time-bomb-indias-sinking-holy-town-faces-grim-future/"></div>JOSHIMATH, India (AP) — Inside a shrine overlooking snow-capped mountains, Hindu priests heaped spoonfuls of puffed rice and ghee into a crackling fire. They closed their eyes and chanted in Sanskrit, hoping their prayers would somehow turn back time and save their holy — and sinking — town. For months, the roughly 20,000 resi...

For months, residents in Joshimath, a holy town burrowed high up in India’s Himalayan mountains, have seen their homes slowly sink. They pleaded for help, but it never arrived. In

For months, the roughly 20,000 residents in Joshimath, in the Himalayas have watched the earth slowly swallow their community.

Joshimath, a holy town located in the Himalayan mountains of India, is sinking. Hundreds of residencies became uninhabitable as fissures and cracks emerged.

Joshimath’s future is at risk, experts and activists say, due in part to a push to grow religious tourism in Uttarakhand

After three decades it was realized that the concept of Development has added up to the blunders as there was degradation from economy to ecology. There was a huge income inequality not only in undeveloped countries but also in developed countries. At the same time, the global climate was hampered and depleted.

Natural disasters are devastating but they are also emotionally draining. Time heals. In my 50 years of life, I have witnessed many natural disasters. Who am I? Does that matter? What matters is I have survived; survived to share a few pages of my diary with you

Three regions–one between central Himachal and north Bihar, the other between the Shillong plateau and the Mishmi Hills in Arunachal and another in Kashmir–are likely epicentres of future disasters

More than 40 families in the Paingadh village, which is among the oldest settlements on the bank of the Pindar River near Tharali on the Karnaparayag-Almora National Highway, have become homeless and are living like refugees.