Researchers: Climate Change Likely Caused Deadly 2016 Avalanche in Tibet
Friday, December 9, 2016 - 04:31
in Earth & Climate
On July 17, more than 70 million tons of ice broke off from the Aru glacier in the mountains of western Tibet and tumbled into a valley below, taking the lives of nine nomadic yak herders living there. Researchers conducted a kind of forensic analysis of the disaster, and the cause was likely climate change.