Uttarakhand CM launches SBI Foundation and HESCO's Project Helping Chamoli's Villages Fight Climate Change
Dehradun (Uttrakhand) [India], December 27 (ANI/NewsVoir): Uttarakhand, an ecologically fragile and disaster-prone state, has been experiencing climate change impacts such as changing seasons, less snowfall, flash floods, and unpredictable rainfall over the last few years. Large-scale anthropogenic pressures have been rising as a result of development activities such as the construction of roads, bridges, mining, hydro power units, which have increased the vulnerability of the region to disasters and have endangered ecological sustainability. Nearly 70 per cent of the population in mountain di...