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1. Article · Aug 30, 2026 · Raymond Zhong, Jason Gulley and Bora Erden

   A dead glacier is a loss. A dying one is a threat (opens the original)

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   This story originally ran in December, 2025. Melting ice from the Himalayas is creating thousands of unstable lakes, a growing menace to towns and cities below. The ice of the Himalayas is wasting away. Glacier-draped slopes are going bare. The ground atop the mountain range, which sprawls across five Asian countries, is slumping and sliding as the ice beneath it — ice that held the land together — disappears. Meltwater is puddling in the valleys below, forming deep lakes. As humans warm the pla

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2. Article · Jul 30, 2026 · Raymond Zhong

   Emptying countryside leaves ‘no simple solution’ to European wildfires (opens the original)

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   Firefighters tackle a wildfire near Lanton, west of Bordeaux, during wildfires in the Gironde region, southwestern France. Photo / Ed Jones, AFP A warming planet and a shift away from farming have set the stage for larger fires on the continent. “We must learn to coexist with them,” one report said. The giant wildfires in France and Spain are the countries’ largest on record, and at roughly 40,500ha each, the blazes are bigger than all but six of last year’s wildfires in the American West. Studi

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