Nepal floods, Mont Blanc rockfalls: How climate change is destabilising world’s mountains
Warming is weakening glaciers and permafrost, raising flood, landslide and rockfall risks from Nepal to Mont Blanc.
The two incidents took place thousands of kilometres apart and had different immediate triggers. But they point to the same wider problem – warming is changing the frozen systems that help hold high mountains together.
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