Tibet-Nepal avalanche disaster a warning against China’s ongoing devastation of the fragile Himalayan mountain system

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(TibetanReview.net, Sep02’26) – The glacial collapse that tore through Nepal’s borderlands may have originated on the Nepali side of the Himalayas. But that does not give China a clean chit for the scars its infrastructure push is leaving across the same fragile mountain system, said an indiatoday.in report Sep 1. It noted that last year, the Stockholm Center, a Sweden-based think tank, warned that the Tibetan Plateau was undergoing a rapid but largely overlooked ecological transformation.

And the Aug 26 flash floods have brought that warning back into focus, the report warned.

The devastating Aug 26 floods have killed at least 1,114 people in Nepal while 3,916 are missing, a week after the ...

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