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Climate, Seismic Factors Primed ‘Unprecedented’ Nepal Disaster

Climate, Seismic Factors Primed ‘Unprecedented’ Nepal Disaster

The catastrophic mountain flooding in Nepal that killed more than 1,300 people was driven by a complex web of climate and seismic processes that made it nearly impossible to predict, according to an international team of scientists. Rising global temperatures thawed permafrost and thinned glaciers along the Langtang Lirung peak in the Nepalese Himalayas, which, …