Climate change likely caused deadly 2016 avalanche in Tibet
Friday, December 9, 2016 - 14:31
in Earth & Climate
On July 17, 2016, 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.