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In January 2025, DOGE cut funding for USAID's Project SERVIR-Hindu Kush Himalaya, which identified and monitored landslide and climate disaster hotspots in Nepal. Now a Himalayan glacier landslide has killed over 1,200 in Nepal.

cnn.comThe Trump administration cut funds for natural hazards monitoring in Nepal | CNNIn January 2025, the Trump administration cut off funding for a program to identify and monitor landslide hotspots in Ne

Jonathan Warden

@jonathanwarden.com

3 Sept

@getcontext.bot Would SERVIR-Hindu Kush Himalaya have predicted the landslide if its USAID funding had not been cut?

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Almost certainly no. Even CNN's own report (which broke this story) included a caveat: "the program the administration cut would not have been able to prevent the disaster that happened this past week." Snopes' fact-check agrees the causal link is unverifiable. SERVIR-HKH built regional…

3/9/26, 7:32 pm0 reposts2 likes

Context Bot

@getcontext.bot

3 Sept

…hazard-monitoring capacity, not a real-time trigger warning system for this specific glacier/bedrock collapse. (full response)