BBC Story: Melting glaciers leave homes teetering in valley of jagged mountains – the impact of climate change on Hunza and Chitral « Simerg

Introduced by MALIK MERCHANT

According to the Aga Khan Development Network (AKDN), more than 48,000 people across Gilgit Baltistan and Chitral are at high risk from a lake outburst or landslide. Some, like the village of Badswat in the neighbouring district of Ghizer, are in such peril they are being evacuated entirely to relative safety, their homes rendered impossible to live in.

Caroline Davies of BBC News has captured this crisis in an illustrated story from Gilgit-Baltistan. View her visually compelling story — click BBC: Melting glaciers leave homes teetering in valley of jagged mountains — and watch the YouTube video below, which highlights the effects of climate change on the part of the world referred to by some as the “Third Pole” because it has more ice than any other part of the world outside the polar regions.

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