High in the Himalayas, where glaciers have stood for millennia, a collapse near the Tibet border sent a wall of ice, rock, and water through the heart of Nepal on August 26, killing more than a thousand people and leaving nearly four thousand others unaccounted for. The disaster erased villages, schools, and bridges, and silenced more than 500 megawatts of power generation in an instant. Nepal's leaders did not hesitate to name what they believe lies behind such destruction — a warming world that has raised Himalayan temperatures by nearly two degrees — and they are now carrying that grief int
Nepal flood death toll exceeds 1,000 as India aids rescue; climate change blamed
Over 1,000 people killed and nearly 4,000 missing in flash floods; villages, markets, schools and bridges destroyed across northern and central Nepal.