CutTheClutter: Bedrock collapse,ignored warnings & climate change link offer fresh insights into Nepal floods cause
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10 days since the disaster in Nepal, death toll has climbed to over 1,318. Now, fresh clues offer an insight into what could have caused the flash floods. #CutTheClutter Episode 1894 looks at how a bedrock collapse took a hanging glacier down creating two landslide lakes that eventually broke. ThePrint Editor-In-Chief Shekhar Gupta also explains how earlier warnings in fragile Himalayas have been ignored, and why 'climate compensation' clamour doesn't stand.
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