Scores killed, Americans among hundreds missing after Nepal, Tibet flash floods
The flash floods decimated villages, slamming into houses, roads, bridges and power plants.
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The flash floods decimated villages, slamming into houses, roads, bridges and power plants.
At a monastery in the Himalayan foothills, a teenage Buddhist lama blesses thousands. Just six months earlier, thousands of miles away, this same young man was pulling all-nighters to play Madden NFL on his Xbox at his home near Minneapolis.
After more than 2 weeks of fruitless rescue efforts with heavy machinery in India, a team of "rat miners" managed to reach the men trapped in a tunnel in just a day.
Scientists have warned for decades that India's Himalayan glacial lakes are disasters waiting to happen. Climate change means they aren't waiting any more.
