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Kathmandu-based intergovernmental research organisation studying climate, glaciers, and environmental risks across the Hindu Kush Himalaya region.
Nepal's Prime Minister Balendra Shah proposed a Himalayan climate mechanism joining India and China, whose disputed frontier runs roughly 3,500 km. Neither has formally responded, and Himalayan temperatures are rising faster than the global average.
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The creep was about 10 millimetres a month, far too slow to trip any threshold set in advance. Manoochehr Shirzaei's preliminary read is that nobody was screening for the change in its rate.
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Nepal counts 933 workers missing from those sites and thinks about 100 may still be alive inside the tunnels, which turns a single upstream hazard into one correlated claim on a whole basin of run-of-river assets.
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An August glacier collapse killed more than 1,000 people on the Tibet-Nepal border. The author of a phys.org piece, who works with British Antarctic Survey glaciologists, writes that winter snowfall across the range is still measured too sparsely to constrain the models.
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Satellite and seismic analyses point to ice that snapped off above 5,000 metres, blocked the Lhende Khola and burst through hours later. Almost no rain preceded it, which is why the region's flood warning tools had nothing to read.
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Nepal's disaster authority says satellite images show the river blocked upstream and a lake growing behind avalanche debris. The two scientists tracking it call the alerts worth heeding and a repeat of Wednesday's flood unlikely.
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