On August 26, a glacier the size of thirty football fields broke away from the Nepal-Tibet border, sending 110 million cubic metres of ice and snow into the valleys below and killing more than 1,300 people, with thousands more still missing. Scientists at Imperial College London have now traced the conditions that made this catastrophe more likely — decades of atmospheric warming that thawed permafrost, raised the freezing threshold, and stripped away the stabilising ice that once held the mountain together. The disaster sits at the intersection of geology and justice: a rare, once-in-millenni
Climate crisis weakened glacier in catastrophic Nepal-Tibet floods that killed 1,300+
Over 1,300 people killed and more than 5,000 remain missing after the glacier collapse triggered catastrophic floods that swept away families, homes, settlements, and infrastructure.