The Recipe for Disaster That Is Causing Destruction in Himalayan States
The disasters unfolding in the hill states are a result of unplanned development on unstable mountains that are already facing extreme weather events, scientists and environmentalists said. Without planned, resilience-friendly development and adaptation measures such as district-level micro plans to deal with the changing climate, there may be no respite for the people or the environment in these regions.
https://science.thewire.in/environment/recipe-disaster-destruction-himalayan-states/
#himalayas #ExtremeWeatherEvents #HimachalRains #rains #floods #landslides #construction #infrastructure #RealEstate #DevelopmentProjects #HimachalPradesh #uttarakhand #ClimateChange #environment #india
#himalayas #ExtremeWeatherEvents #himachalrains #rains #floods #landslides #construction #infrastructure #realestate #developmentprojects #himachalpradesh #uttarakhand #ClimateChange #environment #india
New Geological Study Rewrites History Of The World's Highest Peaks
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https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidbressan/2023/08/15/new-geological-study-rewrites-history-of-the-worlds-highest-peaks/ <-- shared media article
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https://doi.org/10.1038/s41561-023-01243-x <-- shared paper
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#GIS #spatial #mapping #remotesensing #uplift #Himalayas #tibet #model #modeling #research #uplift #sampling #hydrothermal #oxygenisotopes #India #Eurasia #mountains #geology #structuralgeology #TibetanPlateau #palaeoaltimetry #palaeoelevation #geodynamic #palaeoclimate #GangdeseArc #subduction #lithosphere #continentalcollision
#gis #spatial #mapping #remotesensing #uplift #himalayas #tibet #model #modeling #research #sampling #hydrothermal #oxygenisotopes #india #eurasia #mountains #geology #structuralgeology #tibetanplateau #palaeoaltimetry #palaeoelevation #geodynamic #palaeoclimate #gangdesearc #subduction #lithosphere #continentalcollision
Scientists have adjusted the age of the Himalayas by 20 million years after new research. The collision between India and Eurasia was more complex and dynamic than previously thought, involving multiple subduction zones and plate fragments.
#himalayas #geology #collision
Himachal Pradesh floods: More rain, less snow are turning #Himalayas dangerous
#ClimateCrisis #climatechange #climatestrike #himalayas
#India: Heavy rain triggers deadly #landslides in #Himalayas
https://www.dw.com/en/india-heavy-rain-triggers-deadly-landslides-in-himalayas/a-66523736
The Tour de France might be over, and while their is still plenty of #ProCycling on the go, this evening I'm sitting down to watch the latest GCN+ plus film.
Simon Richardson and Hank taking on a bike packing trip in the Himalayas on a quest to discover Nepal’s mysterious ‘Forbidden Kingdom’, the remote mountaintop city of Lo Manthang
#himalayas #Nepal #velophant #Cycling #procycling
These guys have been our constant companions while staying in this patch of forest near Paro. Rain or sunshine, they are flitting about and adding a touch of joy to the landscape.
I wish I'd spent a little more time capturing them now. Instead, I let the fancy ones distract me too often! I have the same problem with donuts.
#Bhutan #Paro #Photography #Lumix #FlutterByes #Himalayas #Butterflies #Ypthima #NotADonut
#bhutan #paro #photography #lumix #flutterbyes #himalayas #butterflies #ypthima #notadonut
These fellas were more interested in licking rocks, for salt or minerals or whatever, than flying away from my lens. A real treat for my walk this morning.
Western Courtier (Sephisa dichroa).
#Bhutan #Paro #Photography #Lumix #FlutterByes #Himalayas #Butterflies #SephisaDichroa #SaltLickers
#bhutan #paro #photography #lumix #flutterbyes #himalayas #butterflies #sephisadichroa #saltlickers
Gonna try to get some clearer pics of this guy tomorrow. I saw a pair of them looping around that same patch of forest today, I think I can find them again tomorrow.
Might be hard to get an ID than get a photo though. Crazy gorgeous stone-like lower wing, then electric blue streaks on the upper.
#Bhutan #Bumthang #Photography #Lumix #FlutterByes #Himalayas #Butterflies #WeirdBugsAreCoolBugs
#bhutan #bumthang #photography #lumix #flutterbyes #himalayas #butterflies #weirdbugsarecoolbugs
Me in the morning vs me in the afternoon.
#Bhutan #Bumthang #Photography #Lumix #FlutterByes #Himalayas #Butterflies
#bhutan #bumthang #photography #lumix #flutterbyes #himalayas #butterflies
I'll wrap it up there. I could have spent hours at the site observing all the moths and trying to capture them with a little more art. Bhutan throws all manner of surprises at me, but rarely something so impressive and unexpected.
Hope you enjoyed getting a glimpse into this world too.
10/10
#Mothstodon #སྤྱན་སྡེབ་སྦྱིས་མཆོད་རྟེན། #Bhutan #Chendebji #Photography #Lumix #FlutterByes #Himalayas #Butterflies #NotButterflies #MothsToTheLight
#mothstodon #སྤྱན #bhutan #chendebji #photography #lumix #flutterbyes #himalayas #butterflies #notbutterflies #mothstothelight
I just can't express how much I love those 60s and 70s designs on some of these critters. Pure art. I couldn't paint something beautiful if I tried.
9/x
#Mothstodon #སྤྱན་སྡེབ་སྦྱིས་མཆོད་རྟེན། #Bhutan #Chendebji #Photography #Lumix #FlutterByes #Himalayas #Butterflies #NotButterflies #MothsToTheLight #NatureIsArt
#mothstodon #སྤྱན #bhutan #chendebji #photography #lumix #flutterbyes #himalayas #butterflies #notbutterflies #mothstothelight #NatureIsArt
A hint of yellow in the colour range too. I can dig it.
8/x
#Mothstodon #སྤྱན་སྡེབ་སྦྱིས་མཆོད་རྟེན། #Bhutan #Chendebji #Photography #Lumix #FlutterByes #Himalayas #Butterflies #NotButterflies #MothsToTheLight
#mothstodon #སྤྱན #bhutan #chendebji #photography #lumix #flutterbyes #himalayas #butterflies #notbutterflies #mothstothelight
There was more than months too. Beetles were drawn in by the light, big ones! Many of these were still alive. One in particular was so feisty, even flipped upside-down.
I righted him up and he tried to murder me. Nature is dangerous people!
5/x
#Beetles #སྤྱན་སྡེབ་སྦྱིས་མཆོད་རྟེན། #Bhutan #Chendebji #Photography #Lumix #FlutterByes #Himalayas #Butterflies #NotButterflies #MothsToTheLight
#beetles #སྤྱན #bhutan #chendebji #photography #lumix #flutterbyes #himalayas #butterflies #notbutterflies #mothstothelight
I can tell you the Chendebji is covered in white lime. The stupa and shorten at very very white.
But in recent times they repainted and added some super bright flood lights. When I stepped closer to these, I found literally thousands of dead moths.
Not to say they wouldn't have died somewhere in the forest anyway, but it seemed very sad.
4/x
#Mothstodon #སྤྱན་སྡེབ་སྦྱིས་མཆོད་རྟེན། #Bhutan #Chendebji #Photography #Lumix #FlutterByes #Himalayas #Butterflies #NotButterflies #MothsToTheLight
#mothstodon #སྤྱན #bhutan #chendebji #photography #lumix #flutterbyes #himalayas #butterflies #notbutterflies #mothstothelight
The sheer variety of moths in one tiny little space was amazing. But why?
I did notice that a lot of them were white. And one particular species far outnumbered the others. The doorway was awash with moths.
I know next to nothing about moths myself. I've only just tuned my brain into being more aware of butterflies.
3/x
#Mothstodon #སྤྱན་སྡེབ་སྦྱིས་མཆོད་རྟེན། #Bhutan #Chendebji #Photography #Lumix #FlutterByes #Himalayas #Butterflies #NotButterflies #MothsToTheLight
#mothstodon #སྤྱན #bhutan #chendebji #photography #lumix #flutterbyes #himalayas #butterflies #notbutterflies #mothstothelight
I want to tell a little story about a stupa in Bhutan called Chendibji, a beautiful place I have visited many times but has a sad story.
It's a special place for Bhutanese, a spiritual place surrounded by wild forests. Recently they restored the stupa and chorten and installed immense flood lights to illuminate at night.
Moths flock to it.
1/x
#Mothstodon #སྤྱན་སྡེབ་སྦྱིས་མཆོད་རྟེན། #Bhutan #Chendebji #Photography #Lumix #FlutterByes #Himalayas #Butterflies #NotButterflies #MothsToTheLight
#mothstodon #སྤྱན #bhutan #chendebji #photography #lumix #flutterbyes #himalayas #butterflies #notbutterflies #mothstothelight
At first I thought they only liked yellow flowers but then... plot twist!
Copper on purple. Bhutan style.
#Bhutan #Bumthang #Photography #Lumix #FlutterByes #Himalayas #Butterflies #CommonCopper #Lycaena
#bhutan #bumthang #photography #lumix #flutterbyes #himalayas #butterflies #commoncopper #lycaena
Some days you just see the same species over and over, as though somebody cleaned your glasses and suddenly the things that were right in front of you are clear to see.
#Bhutan #Punakha #Photography #Lumix #FlutterByes #Himalayas #Butterflies #CommonCopper #Lycaena
#bhutan #punakha #photography #lumix #flutterbyes #himalayas #butterflies #commoncopper #lycaena
Went to a festival in Bhutan. Found a giant yellow moth.
#Bhutan #Bumthang #Photography #Lumix #FlutterByes #Himalayas #NotButterflies #BigYellowMoth #Mothstodon
#bhutan #bumthang #photography #lumix #flutterbyes #himalayas #notbutterflies #bigyellowmoth #mothstodon