Climate study links glacier collapse to deadly floods

The first scientific analysis of the August 2026 Nepal-Tibet floods concludes that global heating likely destabilized the 200,000-square-metre glacier that collapsed, triggering an avalanche of 110 million cubic metres of ice and snow. The flash floods killed over 1,300 people.

🐿️ This paper finally connects the dots between a record-warm mountain season and a glacier that literally melted out from under itself, but the real shame is that nobody upstream had a warning system.