Several districts of Uttrakhand are disaster-prone. And, it is not just due to climate change. Mining, tree-felling and wrong techniques employed for road expansion are causing landslides and land subsidence
Uttarakhand is experiencing relentless rainfall, causing significant disruptions to everyday life. Reports of landslides in multiple areas have also surfaced
A magisterial probe into the recent electrocution incident at a Namami Gange sewage treatment plant in Uttarakhand's Chamoli, which claimed 16 lives, has attributed it to faulty earthing at the STP.
While the study stops short of linking the disaster directly to climate change, it says that the increasing frequency of high-mountain slope instabilities can likely be related to ‘observed atmospheric warming and corresponding long-term changes in cryospheric conditions (glaciers, permafrost).
Nearly 29 labourers from Uttar Pradesh, who were working at Tapovan-Vishnugad hydropower project in Uttarakhand s Chamoli and went missing when a glacier burst triggered a massive flash flood on February 7, have finally been declared dead .