Nepal floods came as climate change brings more disasters to the Himalayas

The flash floods in Nepal were only the latest in an accelerating series of disasters that have battered the Himalayas in recent years. The region was already prone to earthquakes, and now climate change is melting high mountain glaciers, increasing the risk …

KATHMANDU, Nepal (AP) When a wall of water, rocks and mud tore through her remote village in Nepal last week, Pema Tamang and her neighbors fled uphill to a Buddhist shrine that had been rebuilt the …

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