Risky environs: Here's why we should care about climate change
Disaster in Baltistan, Pakistan, August 2015.
AKDN / Christopher Wilton-Steer
Article Author: Risky environs: Here's why we should care about climate change
Media Source: Herald Dawn
Date: 16 August 2016
If changes in the glaciers are found to be sudden, local communities are informed immediately to take action — which means either running away to safety or creating embankments to divert the waters away from human settlements. “The survey has helped us in issuing early warnings to the villagers about the arrival of flash floods so…
If changes in the glaciers are found to be sudden, local communities are informed immediately to take action — which means either running away to safety or creating embankments to divert the waters away from human settlements. “The survey has helped us in issuing early warnings to the villagers about the arrival of flash floods so that they can save their lives and valuables,” says Nusrat Nasab, Chief Executive Officer of FOCUS.