{"id":8419,"date":"2009-11-04T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-11-04T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2009\/11\/04\/the-sacred-ganges-threatened-climate-change\/"},"modified":"2009-11-04T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2009-11-04T12:00:00","slug":"the-sacred-ganges-threatened-climate-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2009\/11\/04\/the-sacred-ganges-threatened-climate-change\/","title":{"rendered":"The Sacred Ganges, Threatened Climate Change"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/science\/nature\/8337207.stm\">news.bbc.co.uk<\/a><\/p>\n<p>[HPI note: Hindu leaders have long been among the most outspoken defenders of natures balance. For the Hindu, nature is sacred, to be respected and cared for. <\/p>\n<p>The last few weeks saw a growing momentum worldwide for initiatives that gather religious leaders to discuss climate change&#8217;s causes, consequences and possible solutions. This edition of HPI brings you news about the Hindu world and climate change.]<\/p>\n<p>INDIA, November 4, 2009: The Himalayan glaciers are the largest body of ice outside the polar caps, and they are under threat from global warming. The warning comes from experts, among them Dr. R K Pachauri, head of the UN&#8217;s Intergovernamental Panel on Climate Change and Nobel Peace Prize laureate of 2008.<\/p>\n<p>According to the BBC, &#8220;The Himalayan range the area most affected by global warming in recent years.&#8221; This short video focuses on the Ganges; see it <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/science\/nature\/8337207.stm\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: news.bbc.co.uk [HPI note: Hindu leaders have long been among the most outspoken defenders of natures balance. For the Hindu,,&#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-8419","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8419","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=8419"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8419\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}