# Satellite images show glacier collapse that triggered flooding at Nepal-China border

https://mins.news/en/video/34740

- CBC News, 2026-08-27 17:51 UTC
- World
- Original: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qa6xLsJLFnc

> Satellite images show that the lower section of a glacier tongue, stretching 1,300 metres across, sheared off and plunged from a cliff into a lake 2,000 metres below, geoscientist Jakob Steiner says. He says climate change contributed and the area was already known to face a high risk of collapse.

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