As Pakistan glacier melt surges, efforts to cut flood risk drag
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By Rina Saeed Khan ISLAMABAD, June 8 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Late last month, residents of the tiny village of Hassanabad, in Pakistan’s mountainous Hunza District, noticed floodwaters quickly rising in the stream that runs near their homes, carrying water from the towering Shishper glacier. “The flows became so high that they eroded the land […]