{"id":877672,"date":"2026-09-02T17:30:29","date_gmt":"2026-09-02T17:30:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/877672\/"},"modified":"2026-09-02T17:30:29","modified_gmt":"2026-09-02T17:30:29","slug":"after-nepals-catastrophic-flood-scientists-watch-for-what-comes-next","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/877672\/","title":{"rendered":"After Nepal\u2019s catastrophic flood, scientists watch for what comes next"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\">But the scale and complexity of the Himalayas make that a difficult task.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\u201cThere are many, many glaciers across the\u00a0Himalayas\u00a0so monitoring all of them is an extremely challenging task,\u201d said Van Wyk de Vries.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Every glacier and its surroundings are also different, with no \u201cone-size-fits-all approach\u201d, he said.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">While glacier retreat or glacial thinning occurs gradually over years, a glacier collapse is a rapid event.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">In the Nepal disaster, a landslide of rock underneath the glacier pulled some of the ice with it, although scientists are still working to understand the exact details of the collapse.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">For Van Wyk de Vries, one of the biggest lessons from the disaster is that authorities should look beyond the valley where the flood occurred.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\u201cI think what we really need to do now is take a look at this exact flood and see this flood could probably have happened in about 100 other valleys across the Himalayas,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Echoing Horton\u2019s emphasis on warning systems and location of infrastructure, he said such considerations should be applied across the entire mountain range.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"But the scale and complexity of the Himalayas make that a difficult task. \u201cThere are many, many glaciers&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":877673,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[64,63,75,35216,208624,447315,447314,128],"class_list":["post-877672","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-environment","tag-flood","tag-glacier-collapse","tag-nepal-tibet-border","tag-nepal-tibet-disaster","tag-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/877672","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=877672"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/877672\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/877673"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=877672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=877672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=877672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}