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FEATURE-As temperatures rise, aliens threaten Nepal s oldest national park Reuters 1 hr ago Rising heat linked to climate change is helping invasive plants Grasslands now cover 6% of the park, down from 20% in the 1970s Tackling invasive plants and digging ponds costs $400,000 a year
By Pramod Acharya
CHITWAN, Nepal, July 19 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - When botany professor Bharat Babu Shrestha visited Nepal s Chitwan National Park in 2013, feverfew - a flowering plant in the daisy family - was rare.
Today, large areas of the park s grasslands are covered in the invasive plant, said Shrestha, who teaches at Tribhuvan University on the outskirts of Kathmandu.
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MUZAFFARABAD, Pakistan (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - On hot summer evenings, Khawaja Magbool Hadieri’s family used to sit on their home’s balcony and relish the cool breeze wafting off the nearby Neelum river.
But these days, after 80% of the river’s flow was diverted for hydropower, “we’re sweating while sitting there, even using an electric fan,” Hadieri, 70, a resident of the Azad Jammu and Kashmir capital, told the Thomson Reuters Foundation.
As Pakistan seeks new sources of green energy, officials are diverting rivers through tunnels to harness clean hydropower.
But the diversions are also causing a range of problems, from hotter urban temperatures to water shortages and sewage buildups in riverbeds once rushing with water.