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The lakes that climate models keep ignoring — and the flood risk hiding above the snowline
A new international study says thousands of small glacial lakes in high-mountain ranges are unmapped — and the outburst-flood risk they pose is rising faster than the data infrastructure built to track them.

Desk note: Monexus frames this as a story about institutional lag — a risk that is technically measurable, financially material, and politically distributed across some of the world's least-resourced jurisdictions. The wire coverage led on the headline figure; this piece pushes one step further into the adaptation-finance implications, which is where the policy stakes actually sit.
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