{"id":59564,"date":"2026-08-27T21:15:21","date_gmt":"2026-08-27T21:15:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/nepal-flooding-whats-behind-the-disaster\/"},"modified":"2026-08-27T21:15:21","modified_gmt":"2026-08-27T21:15:21","slug":"nepal-flooding-whats-behind-the-disaster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/nepal-flooding-whats-behind-the-disaster\/","title":{"rendered":"Nepal flooding: What&#8217;s behind the disaster?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Scientists are pointing to a glacier collapse as a key cause of the deadly floods that have swept through parts of Nepal and Tibet.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The glacier in question lies to the north of Langtang Lirung, a peak more than 7,000 metres above sea level in the Himalayas.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">As Mark Poynting reports, it&#8217;s not yet clear what caused the glacier to collapse, but some scientists say a massive landslide could have taken part of the glacier with it.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><i class=\"ssrcss-xbdn93-ItalicText e5tfeyi2\">Produced by Tom Joyner. Graphics by Mesut Ersoz and Leo Scutt-Richter.<\/i><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/videos\/c07l9ggx8m7o?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists are pointing to a glacier collapse as a key cause of the deadly floods that have swept through parts of Nepal and Tibet. The glacier in question lies to the north of Langtang Lirung, a peak more than 7,000 metres above sea level in the Himalayas. As Mark Poynting reports, it&#8217;s not yet clear [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":59565,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[1569,5533,16476,645],"class_list":["post-59564","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-reality-check","tag-disaster","tag-flooding","tag-nepal","tag-whats"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59564","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59564"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59564\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59566,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59564\/revisions\/59566"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/59565"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}