Nepal glacial disaster and the new geography of climate risk

On August 26, the Himalayas seemed to move. An enormous mass of ice and rock broke loose near the Nepal-Tibet border, plunging into the Lhende Khola River and unleashing a wall of water, mud, boulders and debris down the mountain valleys. What followed was not merely a flood but a cascading geological event: glacier collapse,
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