Nepalese Expert: Cross-Border Mudslide Triggered by Climate-Driven Glacier Collapse in Nepal
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Nepalese expert: Cross-border mudslide triggered by climate-driven glacier collapse in Nepal
The catastrophic mudslide that struck the China-Nepal border on August 26 was triggered by a large-scale glacier collapse in Nepal with a close link to the impacts of global climate change, said Amodmani Dixit, a senior Nepalese geologist and seismologist, in an interview, calling for deeper practical cooperation of the two countries to address climate-related disasters in the Himalayas.
China gave this Sunday for "enlightened" the cause of the flood that swept through northern Nepal and the Tibetan county of Gyirong this week and attributed it to the collapse of a Nepali glacier whose stability had been affected by a "long period of global warming."Continue reading....
The floods that killed hundreds of people on the Nepal-Tibet border are thought to have been caused by the collapse of a massive glacier. Glaciers, which sometimes take thousands of years to form on mountain peaks...
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