{"id":8247,"date":"2021-02-08T10:32:37","date_gmt":"2021-02-08T17:32:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/envirobeat.com\/?p=8247"},"modified":"2021-02-08T10:32:37","modified_gmt":"2021-02-08T17:32:37","slug":"scores-feared-dead-as-glacier-causes-dams-to-burst-in-north-india-world-news-the-guardian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/envirobeat.com\/?p=8247","title":{"rendered":"Scores feared dead as glacier causes dams to burst in north India | World news | The Guardian"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8216;&#8230;While some have said the incident shows the growing impact of the climate crisis \u2013 a 2019 survey found that the Himalyan glaciers are melting at \u201calarming speed\u201d \u2013 local activists and writers have also blamed the intensive building along Uttarakhand\u2019s rivers and mountains of dams and hydropower infrastructure, which they argue is destabilising the ecologically fragile Himalayan region and resulting in more extreme weather events.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/feb\/07\/150-feared-dead-as-glacier-crashes-into-dam-in-northern-india\">Scores feared dead as glacier causes dams to burst in north India | World news | The Guardian<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8216;&#8230;While some have said the incident shows the growing impact of the climate crisis \u2013 a 2019 survey found that the Himalyan glaciers are melting at \u201calarming speed\u201d \u2013 local activists and writers have also blamed the intensive building along Uttarakhand\u2019s rivers and mountains of dams and hydropower infrastructure, which they argue is destabilising the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/envirobeat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8247"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/envirobeat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/envirobeat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/envirobeat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/envirobeat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8247"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/envirobeat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8247\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8248,"href":"https:\/\/envirobeat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8247\/revisions\/8248"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/envirobeat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/envirobeat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/envirobeat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}