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Watch: What caused the Nepal-Tibet flash floods?
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The US Geological Survey states that the floods in the Nepal-Tibet border resulted from a "glacial collapse", not an earthquake as initially thought. The cause of this collapse remains undetermined, but scientists attribute accelerating glacier melting in the Himalayas to rising temperatures and climate change.
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