内容摘要：is focusing renewed attention on the role of global warming in glacier collapses around the world and the increasing dangers.

is focusing renewed attention on the role of global warming in glacier collapses around the world and the increasing dangers.

Twenty-two years ago, the novelist stopped in town to buy an ice cream cone. As she licked, she crossed a small bridge, climbed a rickety staircase to a small house, looked around “and saw that mountain.”“Within an hour I signed the contract and bought it. Out of the blue,” she said, her eyes lighting up. “Never been to this town. But I knew THIS is what I wanted.”

The bridge is gone. So is that ice cream shop. But Senehi said there’s more to this place than stores and treats.“There’s something about this area that, it’s just compelling. The mountains. The green. It’s just beautiful,” she said. “It’ll definitely come back. And it won’t be the same; it’ll be better.”A truck drives down a nearly deserted Main Street in Chimney Rock Village, N.C., on Wednesday, May 14, 2025. (AP Photo/Allen G. Breed)

A truck drives down a nearly deserted Main Street in Chimney Rock Village, N.C., on Wednesday, May 14, 2025. (AP Photo/Allen G. Breed)O’Leary said he thinks some Main Street businesses will be open sometime this summer. The council is looking for village-owned properties that can be leased or sold to business owners.

“I can see progress on all fronts,” said O’Leary, who came for a park job 35 years ago and never left. But he cautions that recovery will be slow.

“We don’t want everybody to come at the same time, but we do want people to visit and be patient with us,” he said. “This is a long rebuild. But I think it’s going to be worth it.”Yousman zahoor poses for a photograph with her pet cat at her home in Srinagar, Indian controlled Kashmir, Saturday, Feb. 9, 2025. (AP Photo/Mukhtar Khan)

Yousman zahoor poses for a photograph with her pet cat at her home in Srinagar, Indian controlled Kashmir, Saturday, Feb. 9, 2025. (AP Photo/Mukhtar Khan)Keeping cats, much like raising

, is seen as a stress buster and mood elevator in a region long plagued by conflicts.Split between Pakistan and India but claimed by both in its entirety, Kashmir has recently seen two harsh lockdowns, first in 2019, when Indian Prime Minister Narendra