Nepal’s Warming Collapses Glaciers, Thaws Permafrost — SkimNews
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- Nepal’s mountains are warming and dramatically transforming some of the world’s grandest landscapes, with melting glaciers collapsing.
- Thawing permafrost can slide from steep peaks and crumbling ice dams can release vast lakes, while other effects are barely the length of a fingernail.
Why it matters: For Nepal, three linked processes are underway: glaciers are collapsing, thawing permafrost can slide from steep peaks, and crumbling ice dams can release vast lakes, physically altering high-mountain terrain. Yet some effects are barely the length of a fingernail, making visible changes an incomplete measure of warming across the country’s mountains.
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