A scientific study found that unusually warm conditions linked to climate change likely destabilised a 200,000 square metre glacier in August, causing its collapse and triggering catastrophic floods that killed over a thousand people in Nepal and Tibet. Researchers identified 110 million cubic metres of snow and ice cascading into the valley below.
Read the full story at The GuardianThis story provides powerful, data-backed evidence that climate change is already causing mass casualties, useful for essays arguing that environmental inaction has irreversible human costs. Students can use it to counter the view that environmental protection can be deferred in favour of economic growth, and to argue that developing nations bear the heaviest consequences of emissions they did little to cause.