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Effect of climate-changing: water crisis in Tarai

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Churia hill range is losing its water recharge and soil erosion conserving capacity, subsequently the Tarai  is facing not only underground water crisis but drought and floods. This is the main cause of human exploitation of Chure. Chure Forest       A group of youth arrived in Kathmandu, the capital city of the federal republic of Nepal from Tarai ( Province no 2 ) to draw the attention of the federal government about the crisis of water in their villages . Madhesh is located at the adjoining southern plain of fragile Churiya or Siwalik mountain range covered with forest and populated areas, geographically included hills and valleys. They were staging a protest gathering in Maitighar Mandala a well-known protest venue in the city. According to them, the situation is going worsening since last few years. Siwalik hill range is expanse Pakistan to Brahmaputra river of India is the youngest hill range of the Indian peninsula. The part of Siwalik in Nepal known as Chure c

climate change : problems in sea

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Global warming is   not only hitting the climate-related system in the land but also affecting the natural activities in the sea . Generally, ice and snow lands are feeding water to rivers and rivers are feeding sea through a gentle process but this natural order is in risk since last few decades. The natural order is changing into a disorder year by year.          The snow and ice lands of the world are the sites of natural water reservoirs to balance the water cycle in the Earth. North and south polar regions are the rich of ice, beside them, snow-covered high lands are also playing an unavoidable role for creatures and plant kingdoms in the Earth.  Perhaps, the rotation of the water cycle has been running eternally since the genesis epoch on the Earth. Human being also came into existence in the earth, after the starting of this mysterious natural phenomena and developed human civilizations around of rivers.  The civilization of Egypt was settled on the bank of the Nile riv

A travel note on nature: Climate Change

 A funny planned trip for refresh to Baglung not remained within the frame but gave a learn to know the impact of climate change on the rural people of Himalaya foothill in Nepal.   A n old man was sitting with his companions, beneath a tree in a midsummer day of 2018 in Baglung Bazar, a rural-based town and a district headquarter of Baglung of Nepal. He was not a shopkeeper or business but a middle-classed farmer and a retired civil servant of district administrative office. He was saying with upset loading mood that his generation will not be able to handover the quiet beauty of nature to the coming generation. His indication was toward a gloomy future. His colleagues were not serious to him because they did not understand the seriousness of the subject. Perhaps he was comparing the climate between of now and then.  It was too late to planting paddy in fields due to the shortage of water. Irrigation Canals were empty of water. Streams were not plenty of wate