{"id":247853,"date":"2024-03-28T08:19:00","date_gmt":"2024-03-28T08:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.republicofgreen.com\/at-11500-feet-a-climate-fast-to-save-the-melting-himalaya\/"},"modified":"2024-03-28T10:59:57","modified_gmt":"2024-03-28T10:59:57","slug":"at-11500-feet-a-climate-fast-to-save-the-melting-himalaya","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.republicofgreen.com\/at-11500-feet-a-climate-fast-to-save-the-melting-himalaya\/","title":{"rendered":"At 11,500 Feet, a \u2018Climate Fast\u2019 to Save the Melting Himalaya"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"\">\n<div class=\"article__block article__block--textBlock article__block--drop-cap article__block--drop-cap-t\">\n<p>This month, Indian activist Sonam Wangchuk conducted a 21-day \u201cclimate fast\u201d in his native Ladakh in the Himalaya. He had two objectives: to call the world\u2019s attention to the rapid meltdown of the planet\u2019s \u201cthird pole\u201d and to pressure India\u2019s government to grant Ladakhis the power to legally protect the region\u2019s resources. <\/p>\n<p>For centuries, Ladakhis have survived and thrived in the \u201crain shadow\u201d of the Himalaya, where the only water comes from melting snow and ice. But in recent decades, they have witnessed rapid glacier loss, increasingly erratic snowfall, and disasters caused by unprecedented cloudbursts and glacial lake floods.<\/p>\n<p>An educator and an engineer, Wangchuk has pioneered the construction of passive solar-heated buildings throughout the region, as well as \u201cice stupas,\u201d in which meltwater is refrozen&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/e360.yale.edu\/features\/sonam-wangchuk-interview\"target=\"_blank\">Read the full article originally published at e360.yale.edu.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This month, Indian activist Sonam Wangchuk conducted a 21-day \u201cclimate fast\u201d in his native Ladakh in the Himalaya. He had two objectives: to call the world\u2019s attention to the rapid meltdown of the planet\u2019s \u201cthird pole\u201d and to pressure India\u2019s government to grant Ladakhis the power to legally protect the region\u2019s resources. 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