{"id":7993,"date":"2009-07-08T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-07-08T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2009\/07\/08\/melting-himalayan-glaciers-to-trigger-massive-migration\/"},"modified":"2009-07-08T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2009-07-08T12:00:00","slug":"melting-himalayan-glaciers-to-trigger-massive-migration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2009\/07\/08\/melting-himalayan-glaciers-to-trigger-massive-migration\/","title":{"rendered":"Melting Himalayan Glaciers To Trigger Massive Migration"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.zeenews.com\/news538185.html\">www.zeenews.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>LONDON, ENGLAND, June 10, 2009: A report released Wednesday claims the melting of the glaciers, also known as &#8216;Water Towers of Asia&#8217; will bring perils to poor section of the populations dependent on the river systems in India, China, Pakistan and other Asian countries by the year 2050.<\/p>\n<p>Titled &#8216;In Search of Shelter: Mapping the Effects of Climate Change on Human Migration and Displacement&#8217;, the report announced in Bonn, Germany, says ongoing melting of the glaciers will devastate heavily irrigated farmlands of Asia by increasing floods and decreasing long-term water supplies.<\/p>\n<p>The glacier-fed basins of the Ganges, Brahmaputra, Irawaddy, Salween, Mekong, Yangtze and Yellow rivers now support over 1.4 billion people in India, Pakistan, China, Bangladesh and other neighboring countries.<\/p>\n<p>Changes in the rivers and livelihoods dependent on them could bring profound economic, cultural and demographic impacts, the report warns.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: www.zeenews.com LONDON, ENGLAND, June 10, 2009: A report released Wednesday claims the melting of the glaciers, also known as,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7993","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7993","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7993"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7993\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}