Giant, deadly ice slide baffles researchers. Climate change could be to blame for Tibetan tragedy.

in science •  8 years ago 

About 100 million cubic metres of ice and rocks gushed down a narrow valley in Rutog county in the west of the Tibet Autonomous Region on 17 July, killing nine herders and hundreds of sheep and yaks.

The debris covered nearly 10 square kilometres at a thickness of up to 30 metres, says Zong Jibiao, a glaciologist at the Chinese Academy of Sciences’ Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research (ITPR) in Beijing, who completed a field investigation of the site last week.

http://www.nature.com/news/giant-deadly-ice-slide-baffles-researchers-1.20471

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