To examine the impact of a warmer and wetter climate in High Mountain Asia, Professor Lu Xixi and Dr Dongfeng Li from the Department of Geography at the Nationa
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Rivers flowing from the Tibetan Plateau and the surrounding high Asian mountains which support one-third of the world’s population have experienced rapid incr
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After a 2008 avulsion on the Kosi River, floodwaters overran the Indian state of Bihar, displacing millions of people. Prashanth Vishwanathan/Bloomberg/Getty Images
Why do rivers leap from their banks? Scientists strive to predict deadly flooding events
May. 13, 2021 , 2:00 PM
Rumors that the Kosi River was about to burst were spreading fast in Kusaha, a Nepalese village on the border with India. The river s levees, towering over the village, were being eroded quickly by the cresting waters. At 2 p.m. on 18 August 2008, the east bank ruptured. People ran for their lives as the breach grew. Soon, the entire river, one of the largest tributaries of the Ganges River, had overrun Kusaha and was spilling into India, drowning farm after farm in search of a faster path to the sea.