India's Disappearing Mountains

The impact of illegally mining India’s mountains

India's Disappearing Mountains In northern and western India lies an ancient mountain range, the Aravallis, believed to be hundreds of millions of years old. But these mountains are disappearing, ravaged by illegal mining carried out to feed New Delhi’s construction boom, prompting warnings of a looming ecological catastrophe. Desperate residents take on powerful miners before it's too late.

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