Why Is Nepal So Vulnerable to Flooding?

Catastrophic flooding in Nepal and Tibet is laying bare the risks mountain villages stand to face amid human-induced global warming. Maheshwar Dhakal, Nepal’s climate change chief in the Ministry of Agriculture, Forest and Environment explicitly blamed climate change for the flooding, while the country’s foreign minister, Shisir Khanal urged world leaders to undertake a "global effort" to tackle climate change. "We'd ask the world... to take climate change as one of the major challenges that Nepal and its citizens face, and this has to be a global effort," Khanal said. "We request the global community to come together and preserve the Himalayan ecosystem."The death toll from catastrophic flooding at the Nepal-Tibet border has now surpassed 1,000, with more than 4,000 people still missing.T