Beyond melting ice and glacial lakes at risk of overflowing, the very ground Himalayan communities have built their lives on is shifting.

The cause of the powerful torrents of floodwater that carved a devastating path through Nepal and Tibet - swallowing towns, roads and bridges - is not yet clear, but Nepal is a…

Global warming is making high-altitude regions unstable, and could trigger more frequent landslides and floods.

Each Himalayan tragedy only signals the next one. Business as usual is no longer defensible