As The Himalayas Melt, Deadly Floods Become The New Normal

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By Fabrice Robinet

Key Takeaways: A Himalayan slope failure on Wednesday (registered as magnitude 5.2) sent ice, rock, and water down the Lhende Khola/Bhotekoshi system; by Friday more than 500 were reported dead in Nepal and Tibet and over 1,500 missing. UNU researcher Dipesh Chapagain says this was not a classic glacial-lake outburst but a mountainside collapse into the ...

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