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Himalayas: The climate time bomb threatening India

By France24
26 March 2023   |   3:17 pm
In the world's highest mountain range, global warming threatens thousands of glaciers, resulting in increasingly frequent natural disasters: landslides, avalanches and glacier collapses.

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