'Glaciers in Himalayas retreating': Nepal floods triggered by 'glacier collapse & massive landslide'
- Himalayas: 2 events in the last 90 days
- Previous: 3 days earlier · As the Himalayas melt, deadly floods become the new normal
What happened
Annette Young is pleased to welcome Joseph Shea, Glaciologist and Associate Professor at the University of Northern BC. Shea argues that the catastrophe should be understood as a compound event in which a glacier failure and a massive landslide occurred together. His analysis places the disaster within the broader, well-established transformation of the Himalayas under climate change. As warming changes high-mountai…
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