(TibetanReview.net, Oct02’26) – China says climate change caused the catastrophic Aug 26 Tibet-Nepal avalanche floods, which caused over 1,494 deaths and left more than 6,264 people missing across Nepal and Tibet Autonomous Region (TAR), but nearly 22.5% of the global warming mining rights granted by it across the region lie within 5km of glaciers, said an indiatoday.in report Oct 1, citing an official TAR report.
These glaciers are located across key transboundary river basins. The finding has sharpened concerns that upstream mining could intensify flood and glacial lake-outburst risks downstream, the report said.
Mining can be not only environmentally devastating but it also, according to an





