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Climate change made deadly Nepal glacier and rock collapse more likely, according to analysis

Human-caused global warming thinned glaciers and thawed mountain permafrost, likely helping to destabilize the Himalayan slope that collapsed last month and unleashed catastrophic flooding across Nepal, according to a report released Thursday.

Climate change made deadly Nepal glacier and rock collapse more likely, according to analysis
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Human-caused global warming thinned glaciers and thawed mountain permafrost, likely helping to destabilize the Himalayan slope that collapsed last month and unleashed catastrophic flooding across Nepal, according to a report released Thursday.

Originally published at Phys.org

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