Climate change could be causing more 'glacial collapses', says scientist

Tessa WongAsia Digital Reporter The aftermath of Wednesday's flash flood in Nepal's Nuwakot district, Simon Cook is a senior lecturer in energy environment and security at the University of Dundee specialising in glaciology. On Wednesday, a colleague inspecting satellite imagery noticed that a lower part of a glacier close to the flooded areas was missing, indicating there had been "some kind of ice avalanche or glacier collapse", he tells the BBC. "I think some people thought thi