disaster
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More than 3,000 people are missing after a partial detachment of a glacier on a Nepalese mountain sparked the disaster.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 31, 2026
They say overcrowded prisons are "one major event away from disaster".
From BBC ● Aug. 31, 2026
Nepal's economy is already under pressure, with limited resources to respond to a disaster of this scale.
From Barron's ● Aug. 31, 2026
Nepal’s disaster management agency said that 903 bodies had been recovered across the country, many of them found as far as 150 miles from where the flood originally hit on Wednesday.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 31, 2026
Another impact of the K-19 disaster was that the horrific images were still fresh in the mind of Vasili Arkhipov.
From "Fallout: Spies, Superbombs, and the Ultimate Cold War Showdown" by Steve Sheinkin
While the exact cause of the collapse is unclear, climate change is causing glaciers to melt worldwide, increasing the risks of such disasters.
From Barron's ● Aug. 29, 2026
We can expect a lot more extreme weather disasters, including hurricanes, droughts and floods, as a result.
From Salon ● Aug. 28, 2026
China's President Xi Jinping is urging "all-out" search efforts for the missing, as well as stronger monitoring and early warning systems to prevent secondary disasters.
From BBC ● Aug. 26, 2026
They could be used by the military, for remote communities or following natural disasters.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 18, 2026
“That’s bad enough. But if it hits two degrees, climate disasters like what you heard about today will be happening to all of us, all the time.”
From "Two Degrees" by Alan Gratz
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