A satellite image showing the aftermath of two avalanches in western Tibet in 2016, when two glaciers on the Aru range collapsed and spread across five miles. Researchers say this unusual event was due to climate change. Planet Labs Inc. Want the latest climate news in your inbox? You can sign up here to receive Climate Fwd: , our new email newsletter. When 247 million cubic feet of snow and ice collapsed off a glacier in the dry, mountainous region of western Tibet in 2016, the roiling mass took with it nine human lives and hundreds of animals, spreading more than five miles in three minutes at speeds of up to 186 miles per hour. The event surprised scientists, who had seen a collapse that big and that fast only once before. And then it happened again, three months later, on a neighboring glacier, though without fatalities. Glaciologists hadn’t […]