As Climate Change Warms the Himalayas, Disasters Like the Nepal Floods Are Becoming More Frequent – WTOP News
Scientists say warming has accelerated glacier melt and rockslides in the Himalayas, where river systems support nearly 2 billion people.
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As climate change warms the Himalayas, disasters like the Nepal floods are becoming more frequent – WTOP News
KATHMANDU, Nepal (AP) — When a wall of water, rocks and mud tore through her remote village in Nepal last week, Pema Tamang and her neighbors fled uphill to a Buddhist shrine that had been rebuilt the previous year after a 2015 earthquake. The steep mountain folds of the Himalayas, already prone to earthquakes, have...
Scientists warn that global warming is increasing the risk of disasters in the Himalayas, including flash floods, landslides, avalanches, and glacier collapse, although it's not yet clear that the floods in Nepal are directly caused by global warming.
As Climate Change Warms the Himalayas, Disasters Like the Nepal Floods Are Becoming More Frequent
KATHMANDU, Nepal (AP) — When a wall of water, rocks and mud tore through her remote village in Nepal last week, Pema Tamang and her neighbors fled uphill to a Buddhist shrine that had been rebuilt the previous year after a 2015 earthquake. The steep mountain folds of the Himalayas, already prone to earthquakes, have... The post As Climate Change Warms the Himalayas, Disasters Like the Nepal Floods Are Becoming More Frequent appeared first on The…
When a wall of water, rocks and mud razed its remote village in Nepal last week, Pema Tamang and her neighbors fled uphill to a Buddhist shrine that had been rebuilt the previous year after the earthquake of 2015.
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