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‘Refugees in our own village’: India's desert herders pay price for green energy drive

Pacific Asia • Aug 28, 2024, 3:13 PM
1 min de lecture
The deserts of India’s western Rajasthan state have become home to one of the country's largest onshore wind farms as the country scrambles to boost renewables and stem the impact of climate change. But local livestock herders say the wind turbines are putting their centuries-old way of life under threat, taking up land used for grazing cattle and damaging precious water sources.