Climate crisis is uprooting villages in Mustang.
Following up on yesterday’s Blue News (see here), here an article from the Kathmandu Post: As water sources dry up due to erratic snowfall and rising temperatures, villagers in the high-altitude Himalayan region abandon ancestral homes, becoming ‘climate refugees’, as they call themselves.
In the stark and arid landscapes of Upper Mustang, climate change has begun to redraw the map of human habitation. Entire villages—some centuries old—are now being emptied as springs dry up and water for drinking, irrigation, and livestock becomes scarce. In an unfolding humanitarian and ecological crisis, Samjong and Dhe, two ancient settlements, have been largely abandoned, their residents forced to relocate in search of water and survival.
