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India's climate crisis: New coal mining spreads as heat waves drain hydro dams
Remote communities desperate to protect nature take up bows and arrows to scare off mine officials
Climate change, worsening heat waves and parched dams are cutting India's hydroelectricity production and leading to the encroachment of coal mining projects on rural communities. WEST BENGAL/JHARKHAND, India -- Sipping on a cooling rice beer more than 1,000 kilometers from New Delhi, Mangal Murumu never imagined he would find himself at the molten center of the great Indian climate crisis. Murumu, a farmer from Hirapur in the far eastern state of Jharkhand, is a member of India's Adivasi community -- a group of indigenous peoples whose beliefs include animism and a sustainable lifestyle in nature's midst.
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