Climate change probably weakened glacier behind deadly Nepal floods, study finds

Devighat Bazaar, a Nepalese town devastated by last month’s flash flooding.Photograph: Suryams Upreti/AAP
Climate breakdown probably weakened the glacier that collapsed causing catastrophic floods and killing over a thousand people in Nepal and Tibet last month, the first scientific study of the disaster has found.
Researchers identified unusually warm conditions before the glacier’s collapse, which sent an avalanche of 110m cubic metres (3,885 cu ft) of snow and ice into the valley