India, July 18 -- Climate change in Jammu and Kashmir has stopped being a subject for seminar rooms and started becoming a lived, dated, witnessed event. This July, over the span of five days, the sacred ice formation at the Amarnath cave, revered by pilgrims as a manifestation of Lord Shiva and the physical centre of one of Hinduism's oldest surviving pilgrimages, receded from roughly seven feet to about one. This is not a single unusual season. It is the third consecutive year the ice has failed to hold its form even a week into the Yatra. What is unfolding in these mountains is not only a story about water and temperature. It is a story about how a warming climate reaches into a region's economy, its livelihoods, and the continuity of ...