Climate change and 2015 quake preconditioned deadly Nepal-China flood disaster

Researchers from World Weather Attribution link the catastrophic flood event to climate change, including warming, permafrost degradation, glacier thinning, and increased rainfall, with the 2015 earthquake as a preconditioning factor. The attribution is preliminary and based on modeling, not direct observation. This underscores the growing risk of cascading geophysical and climate-driven disasters in the Himalayan region.