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Nearly 300,000 Live in Flood-Prone Areas of Nepalese Himalayas
Recent research reveals that approximately 300,000 people now reside in high-risk, flood-prone regions across the Nepalese Himalayas. Melting glaciers and thawing permafrost are dramatically increasing environmental hazards in these steep mountain valleys. As infrastructure and populations expand into vulnerable areas, catastrophic events like glacial lake outburst floods pose escalating dangers to local communities.