Langtang2 square kilometers of rock and ice collapsed.
Nearly 2 billion people depend on Himalayan meltwater threatened by more such collapses.
Warming thinned glaciers and thawed permafrost cement deep in the rock, researchers with World Weather Attribution said.
Scientists could not fully quantify climate change’s role, since no long collapse record exists to compare.
How each outlet framed it
- Daily Maverick leans critical
- quantifies climate role via WWA: August temps 5°C above normal, 1.5°C from warming; links October-November snowfall to triggering meltwater
Sources: Daily Maverick