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  "id": 4126998,
  "title": "Nepal glacial disaster and the new geography of climate risk",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/29/nepal-glacial-disaster-and-the-new-geography-of-climate-risk",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-08-29T06:10:25.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Asia Times",
    "slug": "asia-times",
    "url": "https://asiatimes.com/2026/08/nepal-glacial-disaster-and-the-new-geography-of-climate-risk/"
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  "original_language": "en",
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  "summary": "On August 26, the Himalayas seemed to move. An enormous mass of ice and rock broke loose near the Nepal-Tibet border, plunging into the Lhende Khola River and unleashing a wall of water, mud, boulders and debris down the mountain valleys. What followed was not merely a flood but a cascading geological event: glacier collapse, […] The post Nepal glacial disaster and the new geography of climate…",
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  "coverage": {
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}