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Nepal debris flow threatens Himalayas

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Scientists warned that Nepal’s deadly debris flow showed escalating flood and glacial hazard risks across eight Himalayan countries, urging improved monitoring and cross‑border cooperation.

by Du Toit

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Major climate shocks are about to stress test all resilience plans.

This event will give us a glimpse of what the world will be like beyond 1.5°C of heating.
‘Forcing a reckoning’: How Asia is preparing for a ‘supersized’ El Niño
From Sri Lanka to South Korea, governments are preparing for droughts, wildfires, typhoons and floods – with climate plans facing their biggest challenge to date
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September 18, 2026 at 3:18 AM

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"How ice and rock triggered Nepal's catastrophic flood - and why climate change is raising the risks" @resilience.org via www.resilience.org/stories/2026... #water
How ice and rock triggered Nepal’s catastrophic flood – and why climate change is raising the risks
The catastrophic flood that killed hundreds of people in Nepal in August shows the ways rising temperatures, thawing permafrost and melting ice are increasing the risk of destructive floods in the Him...
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September 17, 2026 at 11:36 PM

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‘No doubt’ of climate change role in deadly China-Nepal flood: scientists

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‘No doubt’ of climate change role in deadly China-Nepal flood: scientists
Climate change was a core factor in last month’s deadly glacial mountain collapse on the China-Nepal border that killed more than 1,400 people and left at least 6,600 missing, scientists said…
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September 17, 2026 at 11:02 PM

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No surprises on climate links in today’s WWA report, but interesting to see this aspect stated so starkly: “no existing early warning system could have provided sufficient lead time” and climate hazards in Himalaya are “exceeding adaptation capacity.” www.worldweatherattribution.org/rapid-warmin...
downstream. However, the event was fundamentally different in its magnitude, speed and complexity. It was beyond the design and predictive limits of existing risk reduction measures, and no existing early warning system could have provided sufficient lead time or prevented the scale of impacts observed in the worst-affected areas, highlighting the limits of adaptation. In a rapidly warming Himalaya, increasingly extreme and complex hazards are exceeding adaptation capacity, resulting in loss and damage. This is occurring against a
September 17, 2026 at 6:51 PM
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Nepal’s deadly debris flow points to risks in other high mountain regions

As human-caused climate warming destabilizes high mountain regions, the threat of rock-ice avalanches and other glacial hazards grows.

Nepal’s deadly debris flow points to risks in other high mountain regions
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[Commentary] 500 conservation experts gathered in Nepal to adopt the Kathmandu Resolution 2026.

In this op-ed researcher Sayan Banerjee details the pact’s push for trans-Asian collaboration, resource mobilization, and regional leadership to drive future conservation efforts across the continent.
Kathmandu Resolution calls for Asia-wide leadership on conservation (commentary)
There is perhaps no other continent on earth that possesses as diverse an ecosystem, biodiversity and cultural diversity as Asia. Yet, biodiversity conservation in Asia is in constant crisis, due to…
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September 17, 2026 at 12:17 PM

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Rich countries owe Nepal climate reparations.
Nepal floods: Climate change played role in disaster, study finds
More than 1,400 people were killed and thousands remain missing following the deluge on 26 August.
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September 17, 2026 at 10:22 AM

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Italia est omnis divisa in partes tres: the part with the landslide risk, the part with the flood risk, and the part with both
September 17, 2026 at 9:57 AM

by Friederike Otto Reposted by Peter Thorne, Du Toit

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What are known causal factors behind rock-ice avalanche near Nepal–Tibet border? @wwattribution.bsky.social Vulnerable slope, potentially weakened by 2015 earthquake, definitely destabilised by climate change through glacier retreat & permafrost thaw. www.worldweatherattribution.org/rapid-warmin...
Height of the 0C isotherme in recent years around the rock-failure
September 17, 2026 at 9:18 AM

by Valerie M. Delmotte Reposted by Peter Thorne

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Rapid Warming in the Himalaya Exacerbates Geohazard Cascades Beyond Adaptation Limits

www.worldweatherattribution.org/rapid-warmin...
September 17, 2026 at 7:58 AM

by James M. Bullock Reposted by Mark Lubell

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“Climate breakdown probably weakened the glacier that collapsed causing catastrophic floods and killing hundreds of people in Nepal and Tibet last month, the first scientific study of the disaster has found”

www.theguardian.com/science/2026...
Climate crisis likely behind devastating Nepal-Tibet floods that killed more than 1,300, first study finds
Scientists say global heating was a destabilising factor in collapse of 200,000 sq metre glacier in August
www.theguardian.com
September 17, 2026 at 6:27 AM
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