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Famous for its tree huggers, village at center of India glacier collapse warned of impending disaster for decades. No one listened When contractors came to her Himalayan forest to cut down thousands of trees, Gaura Devi rallied the women of her village and marched into the woods. Armed with only their bare hands and fierce determination to save the forest upon which their livelihoods depended, Gaura Devi and the women put themselves between the trees and the contractors’ chainsaws. The state government had hatched a plan to draw the men of the village away to another town, believing the wom...

“The residents of Chaien village have been waiting for 13-14 years for rehabilitation,” Sati said. Recurring loss and constant fear “We live in constant fear of death due to rocks falling from the mountains and the earth shaking due to the tunneling work for the power project,” 62-year-old Yashoda Devi said. She said 21 families whose houses had developed cracks due to the tunneling work were rehabilitated in Joshimath, located on the opposite mountain. “We were assured of rehabilitation in a phased manner, but haven’t heard anything in the past few years,” Yashoda Devi said. T...

Excerpts from recent editorials in the United States and abroad: ___ Feb. 10 The Tampa Bay Times on the potential of the Super Bowl to have been a coronavirus superspreading event: The last few days brought encouraging signs, and troubling ones, on the pandemic front, underscoring the fragility of the moment with COVID-19. The nation reported fewer cases and hospitalizations, and more vaccines in the pipeline and more shots into arms, reflecting a ramped-up federal effort and greater co-ordination with the states. But images of the Super Bowl weekend in Tampa Bay also captured a frustrating p...

Excerpts from recent editorials in the United States and abroad: ___ Feb. 10 The Tampa Bay Times on the potential of the Super Bowl to have been a coronavirus superspreading event: The last few days brought encouraging signs, and troubling ones, on the pandemic front, underscoring the fragility of the moment with COVID-19. The nation […]

Excerpts from recent editorials in the United States and abroad: