Deadly flash flood on Nepal-Tibet border
Context:
A devastating flash flood accompanied by a mudslide on the border between Nepal and Tibet has killed hundreds of people and left hundreds of tourists missing.
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Hossein Bonakdari (English & French)
Associate Professor, Civil Engineering, Faculty of Engineering
Professor Bonakdari's research covers flooding, climate change, water-related hazards, risk assessment, resilient water infrastructure, hydrodynamics, and real-time infrastructure modelling.
“Behind the tragic numbers is a broader story of how climate-driven glacial retreat and geotechnical slope instability are increasingly interacting in the Himalayas, creating the conditions for cascading hazards in which failures of ice, rock and sediment can rapidly transform into devastating downstream floods.”