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What Do Goats and Wars Have To Do With Glacier Loss?

Science | 09/08/2021 04:00 PM | Click to read full article

In the Ladakh region in the Indian Himalayas, the ethnographic study of glacier recession also entails making sense of layers, but layers of a different kind: layers of politics and the human story that link glaciers to war, family, and even the keeping of goats.

The state of a glacier cannot be disentangled from its locality, its community and the ethical dispositions of the people toward the animals and the lands.

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