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Climate change resulted in deadly flooding in Nepal’s Rasuwa district, notes study

Kathmandu, Sep 17 (UNI) Climate change helped create the conditions that contributed to the devastating ice-rock avalanche and subsequent flooding in Nepal’s Rasuwa district by gradually weakening the high-mountain environment, according to an international scientific study.
The study by World Weather Attribution (WWA), a research group that examines the role of climate change in extreme events, found that processes including glacier thinning, thawing permafrost and rising water pressure in cracks in rocks have weakened parts of the Himalayan mountain environment.
The study was conducted by 24 international scientists specialising in areas including glaciology, hydrology, climate science and seismology. They said climate change was not the sole cause of the disaster, but concluded that decades of human-induced warming had created background conditions that made the mountain terrain increasingly unstable.
According to the findings, the 0°C freezing line in the Himalayas has been rising by around 100 metres every decade amid temperatures increases. This has left areas of land and rock that were previously permanently frozen exposed to warmer conditions and longer periods of thawing.
Following the ice-rock collapse in the Langtang-Lirung area, an avalanche of ice, debris and large volumes of water swept rapidly downhill. The researchers described the disaster as the result of complex interactions between climate, geology, ice and water.
The Bhotekoshi floods have caused widespread human and property losses, with damage estimated at NPR 408.30 billion (approximately $2.7 billion).
More than 1,410 bodies have so far been officially recovered across eight downstream districts. The force of the debris flow made identification difficult, with only 104 bodies formally identified and handed over to families.
Authorities have managed another 1,237 bodies through DNA profiling for future identification.
A total of 13,756 people have been safely rescued through large-scale helicopter deployments and ground search operations.
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