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flag Indigenous people in northern Pakistan use traditional signs to predict deadly floods, saving lives where tech fails.

flag In northern Pakistan’s Gilgit-Baltistan region, Indigenous communities are using traditional knowledge—such as observing animal behavior, unusual sounds, and weather patterns—to detect and respond to increasingly frequent glacial lake outburst floods (GLOFs), often more effectively than high-tech early warning systems. flag Despite government deployment of sensor-based alerts, many locals rely on time-tested methods like signal fires and gunfire to warn neighbors, enabling timely evacuations and saving lives in remote, hard-to-reach areas. flag With climate change accelerating glacier melt and reducing snowfall, these ancestral practices are proving vital for resilience in one of the world’s most climate-vulnerable regions.

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