‘No doubt’ of climate change’s role in deadly China-Nepal flood, say scientists
A study found that July and August 2026 were the warmest months recorded locally, while heavy snowfall in late 2025 increased meltwater before the collapse.
Scientists from the World Weather Attribution (WWA) group have concluded that climate change played a significant role in last month's deadly glacial mountain collapse on the China-Nepal border, which claimed over 1,400 lives and left at least 6,600 people missing. The disaster was not caused by a single extreme weather event but rather a compound crisis shaped by long-term warming, glacier retreat, permafrost thaw, and geological instability.
The WWA report attributes the weakening of mountain slopes to relentless warming, which has lifted the freezing threshold on the high Himalaya, exposing ice and permafrost to higher and longer thaw temperatures, thus destabilizing the mountain slopes.
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