India's Changing Landscape Reflected in Himalayan 'Ghost Villages'

The Himalayan region of India is seeing a drastic and distress-induced migration of people from the upper reaches to the plains due to lack of jobs, schools, and climate change. The government's policies that devote resources to urban areas are contributing to the transformation of a once-thriving farming region into a network of abandoned communities and devastated natural beauty. The migration has made it harder for small-scale farmers to make a living, and many villages have become ghost villages with only a handful of residents left.