Satellite images show glacier collapse that triggered flooding at Nepal-China border @CBCNews
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Uploaded August 2026 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago
Jakob Steiner, a geoscientist at the University of Graz in Australia, says images obtained from satellites show that 'the lower part of a tongue of a glacier completely sheered off across a width of 1,300 metres' and dropped off a cliff onto a lake 2,000 metres below. Steiner said climate change played a role, and the area was known to be at a high risk for a collapse. 

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