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8 Sep 2020 | Cryosphere

Nepal’s glacial lakes in danger of bursting

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Anew report out this week warns that hundreds of glacial lakes in the Himalaya are in danger of bursting because global heating is melting the ice on the world’s highest mountains. However, on only two of them have there been mitigation measures to reduce water levels.

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