NEPAL CATASTROPHE: Glacial Collapse Kills 1,000+ on Tibetan Plateau...

A glacial collapse on the Tibetan Plateau killed over 1,000 people and left thousands missing after sending debris-filled floodwaters across Nepal's rivers, with hundreds of workers still trapped in hydropower tunnel systems. The disaster has reignited debate over Nepal's aggressive dam-building agenda—the country now relies almost entirely on hydropower for electricity—and specifically over two proposed projects targeting the Karnali, the nation's last undammed major river. Climate scientists have documented accelerating glacier thinning and increasingly unstable mountain slopes across the Hindu Kush Himalaya for years, yet Nepal's government and hydropower industry continued expanding facilities in vulnerable river corridors where floods and debris flows are most likely to occur.