Nepal floods were ‘a warning to the world,’ prime minister tells UN

UNITED NATIONS, United States: The catastrophic Nepal flooding last month was “not just a local tragedy, it was a warning to the world,” the country’s Prime Minister Balendra Shah told the United Nations on Thursday.

Shah said a warming climate was “destabilizing the fragile Himalayan ecology,” melting permafrost and glaciers and accelerating hazards. He urged the international community to help bear the cost of…