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Landslides pose threat to Himalayan hydropower dream

A study of the 2015 Nepal earthquake reveals that many projects were wiped out by moving debris.
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When Wolfgang Schwanghart went to Nepal for the first time, he was shocked to see many hydropower dams perching on the steep Himalayan terrains. “They looked rather precarious,” says the geologist, who works at the University of Potsdam in Germany.

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doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-018-06212-8

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