News Headline
Study pins 2016 Tibetan avalanche on climate change
Source
United Press International (UPI)
Publication Date
2016-12-09
COLUMBUS, Ohio, Dec. 9 (UPI) -- Earlier this year, 70 million tons of ice broke from a glacier in western Tibet. The massive wall of snow and ice careened down the mountainside and into a valley, killing nine nomadic yak herders. A new study in the Journal of Glaciology puts the blame on climate change.