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Deadly Nepal Floods Linked to Melting Glaciers
Researchers said unusually high temperatures and greenhouse gas-driven warming helped trigger the collapse, which sent flash floods through villages and destroyed homes and bridges.
A study suggests that climate change likely contributed to the collapse of glaciers by destabilizing them, in connection with the massive floods that occurred last month in the Himalayan mountain region on the border between Nepal and China.