A recent series of high-mountain disasters foretell a future in which Earth’s destabilized cryosphere will more frequently induce chains of multiple hazards whereby one process triggers the next. GFÚ researcher, John Jansen (Surface Processes & Palaeoclimate), is a co-author among a team of researchers who this week (7 November) published in Nature Geoscience a ‘Correspondence’ on policy regarding geohazards in high mountain communities.
The study can be accessed here: Rethinking policy on high mountain cascading hazards
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High-energy boulder bed channel in the upper Dadu River, Sichuan Tibet, China.