Tinted detail of a photo: Broad grey gravel outwash plain crossed by shallow braided channels of muddy water, with two glacier tongues flowing between dark mountains under a cloudy sky.
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In the News: Flood wave in Nepal: climate disaster or not?

November 4, 2026
A snow-covered mountain peak rises into a deep blue sky, partially obscured by thick, white clouds. The steep, jagged slopes are bright white with visible vertical ridges.

By Aris Kwadijk, PhD candidate, Mountain Hydrology group, Department of Physical Geography at Utrecht University, and Walter W. Immerzeel, Professor, Mountain Hydrology group, Department of Physical Geography at Utrecht University. Email: a.kwadijk@uu.nl, w.w.immerzeel@uu.nl. Website: https://www.uu.nl/medewerkers/AKwadijk, https://www.uu.nl/medewerkers/WWImmerzeel. Was the catastrophic flood wave in the Himalaya on 26 August a consequence of climate change, and therefore the fault of the …[Read More]

From Storm to Landscape: High Resolution for Climate Risk

September 1, 2026
From Storm to Landscape: High Resolution for Climate Risk

Welcome to ”Climate Change through a Geomorphological Lens”, a blog series exploring the changing climate from a geomorphological perspective. This first post was inspired by a single figure in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s Sixth Assessment Report [1]. It compares precipitation change per degree Celsius of warming across different climate models and observations for …[Read More]

Highlighting: The Blatten landslide in Switzerland

June 11, 2025
Highlighting: The Blatten landslide in Switzerland

In the morning of May 28, 2025, the picturesque Swiss alpine village of Blatten sat quiet and serene in the Lötschen Valley. Exceptionally quiet, in fact, as the village was evacuated on May 19th after a local Natural Hazards expert spotted a worrisome change in a local mountain looming about the village, the Kleines Nesthorn: …[Read More]