Flash floods on Nepal-Tibet border
by editors@theworld.org (Joyce Hackel) from The World: Latest Stories on (#77Z7E)
Flash floods triggered by an ice avalanche have left hundreds of people missing in Nepal along its border with Tibet. Some scientists think the tragedy may have been set off, at least in part, by an enormous chunk of ice snapping off a glacier. Simon Cook, a glaciologist at the University of Dundee in Scotland tells The World's Host Carolyn Beeler what a satellite analysis reveals about the disaster.