Tragedy in Nepal: Study Says Extreme Heat Weakened the Glacier That Unleashed the Collapse · Global Voices
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Global warming was one of the main destabilizing factors in the collapse of a 200,000-square-meter glacier that caused catastrophic flooding in Nepal and Tibet last month, according to the first scientific study on the disaster by Imperial College London and the WWA research association.
After the devastation caused by the collapse of a part of a glacier in Nepal, scientists recall that, at the time of climate change, glaciers that have become very vulnerable are becoming increasingly dangerous. With the acceleration of their melting all over the world, access to water is also threatened.
Dangerous landslides and glaciers are not uncommon in the Alps, and warming is making the problem worse. But these are smaller events than the one that recently hit Nepal – and scientists believe they will remain that way. But we know surprisingly little about the exact development of the trend.
Buenos Aires, 18 September (NA) -- The tragedy in Nepal, which left a total of 1403 dead and 6,150 missing on 26 August, occurred due to the rise in temperature, according to the recent analysis by some twenty specialists. The high mountain environment, weakened by the climate crisis, triggered the mud avalanche. Extreme heat, glacial recoil and the thaw of the permafrost led to the glacial collapse that swept through the districts of Rasuwa, Nu…
According to one study, the disaster was the result of an event in which temperatures, glacial thinning and geological weaknesses converged.
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