#glacier — Public Fediverse posts
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CW: The Tibet-China flooding.
A large piece of glacier, made up of ice and rock some 1.3 km wide, broke off high in the mountains and fell some 2 kilometres into the valley below.
Glacier experts reckon a sudden warm spell at high altitudes probably melted snow quickly, which caused water to seep deep into the glacier, making the base slick, and causing the ice mass to break loose. The impact of this hitting the valley generated one hell of a rumble; the USGS thought it was a 5.2 earthquake.
The ice and rock temporarily dammed the Lhende Khola river, which built up behind the debris. When the water pressure broke through the dam, it released a flood of mud, ice, and rocks downstream.
Climate experts reckon rising regional temperatures and climate change are causing Himalayan glaciers to melt and destabilize more rapidly than ever before.
This is a horrible tragedy. I can't imagine what it must have been like to go through it.
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'Scientists say while the ice avalanche can’t be directly attributed to climate change at this point, warming temperatures are creating conditions that make events like these more likely.'
So that's a YES!
#nepal #glacier #environment #globalwarming #climateemergency #noplanetb https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-08-28/nepal-flash-flood-buries-villages-after-glacier-breaks/107085892 -
#Glacier collapse in #Nepal
https://www.livescience.com/planet-earth/devastating-nepal-floods-were-triggered-by-glacier-collapse-experts-say-and-theres-a-risk-of-more-landslides-to-come My take on #Darwin and #Chile here https://nkozphoto.com/index.php/2025/09/05/glaciers-climate-change-and-darwins-legacy-in-chile/ #science #climate #wildlife #evolution -
“Gunjan Silwal (Silwal et al. 2026) recently published an analysis of the glaciers of Langtang, and found that these glaciers are retreating and thinning rapidly. We found that glaciers from 2000-2023 retreated at a rate 1.5 times faster than from 1964-2000, with glacier fragmentation, disconnection and separation extensive.”
"It seems likely from this imagery that this was a huge ice and combined rock landslide."
by Bethan Davies, professor of glaciology and glacial geology: https://www.antarcticglaciers.org/2026/08/august-2026-nepal-tibet-floods/
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Glacier Collapse Kills 360 in Nepal-Tibet Border Floods
A massive glacier collapse triggered flash floods along the Nepal-Tibet border, killing at least 360 people with over 1,400 still missing
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Deadly #Nepal flood highlights #glacier #risks in warming #Himalayas: "The new normal"
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/nepal-flood-glacier-risks-warming-himalayas/
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Nepal flood death toll surges as 65 Americans listed among hundreds of people still missing
Rescue teams were searching for hundreds of missing people along the Nepal-China border Thursday after a catastrophic, deadly…
#NewsBeep #News #Headlines #China #Climatechange #Death #flashflooding #flooding #Glacier #MissingPerson #Nepal #Tibet #World
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Put together a sourced timeline: Himalayan Glacier Disasters: Nepal Flood & GLOF Timeline.
The USGS concluded it was not an earthquake - the magnitude-5.2 seismic signal came from the collapse itself.
Sources are listed on the page. Corrections genuinely welcome.
https://aitimeline.in/himalayan-glacier-disaster-timeline-2021-2026-6168/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=himalayan-glacier-disaster-timeline
#Himalayas #Glacier #Flood #Nepal #ClimateChange #Science -
Middle Fork of the Flathead River, Glacier National Park
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#glacier #collapse #nepal
#glaciercollapseThere are an estimated 40,00 - 50,000+ glaciers in the Hindu Kush Himalayas, which includes the Himalayan region.
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Some worlds are the artists of their own designs.
Experience the full log at https://auriscenes.com/log/311
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#Glacier collapse may have triggered deadly #Nepal flash flood
A deadly flash flood near Nepal's border with Tibet on Wednesday may have been triggered when the lower part of a glacier broke off and crashed on to the valley floor hundreds of metres below, experts said citing satellite imagery from Planet Labs.
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🚧 edit: no need to recurse to "glacier collapse". Please read a better explanation in the next post.
(So i have just learned to beware the New Scientist.)"The full extent of the deaths and damage caused by the enormous flash flood that swept down a river valley in Nepal and Tibet today won’t be clear for weeks. But initial analyses of satellite images and seismic data suggest that the collapse of a high glacier caused the disaster."
"Melting snow appears to have weakened a steep glacier at an altitude of 5 kilometres, causing it to plummet around a kilometre into the river valley below."
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Park Headquarters, Glacier National Park
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Now free for all to read... I board a helicopter from the small town of Franz Josef in the early morning, heading upward into the chilly skies to visit the glacier of the same name:
https://www.patreon.com/timrichards/posts/meeting-with-and-153890666
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RE: https://mastodon.thi.ng/@toxi/115280629181611469
Probably one of the most "textured" places I've ever been to...
#TextureTuesday #LandscapePhotography #Glacier #Alps #Abstract
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Middle Fork of the Flathead River, Glacier National Park
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Apgar Village, Glacier National Park
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West Entrance, Glacier National Park
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Many Glacier - 1, Glacier National Park
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