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“This year, Nepal faced glacier melting and droughts, along with erratic rainfall and floods in the high mountainous region. And in the same season, we faced a prolonged drought in the lowlands. We face different types of climate impacts in the same season. In Nepal, in the last few decades, the impacts are felt most acutely in our fragile mountain ecosystems where glaciers are retreating at an alarming and unprecedented rate. This loss is not merely an environmental concern. It is a direct thre

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