In the hours and days following a devastating flood in June 2021, when a deluge of sediment and debris swallowed parts of the Melamchi River Valley in central Nepal, authorities scrambled to recover the dead and injured.
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Climate change is reshaping the Himalayan slopes. Record-breaking glacial melt has accelerated across the mountains, posing disastrous consequences for hundreds of millions of people in the South Asian plains.
It started with a sudden spike in temperature, minus 13 Celsius, around the Himalayan glaciers. Then came the explosion: a deluge of melted ice racing down at a rate of 9.4 million litres per second, unleashing a landslide of sludge that wiped out everything in its path.
A disaster that wiped out a decades-long project to bring pipe-borne water to Nepal’s capital shows the mismatch between slow-moving donor-financed efforts and rapid global warming.