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Nepal Flash Flood Latest News: ‘Lake Could Burst at Any Time’ China Warns of Fresh Flood Threat as Barrier Lake Breach Risk Rises
Nepal Flash Flood Latest News: China warns that a temporary upstream lake could breach its natural barrier, raising fresh flood concerns as Nepal continues recovery from the deadly disaster. The post Nepal Flash Flood Latest News: ‘Lake Could Burst...
Nepal-Tibet floods: death toll rises to 626 and number missing climbs to nearly 3,000 – latest updates
Rescue workers and military personnel have been working around the clock since Wednesday’s disaster‘The flood took everything I have’: survivors grieve for relatives and homes swept away in NepalChinese rescuers find ‘nothing but ruins’ at border crossing as Nepal...
China Censoring Tibet’s Flood Horror? Online Videos Vanish As Questions Grow Over Beijing's Blackout
The issue is not that China has provided no information about the disaster but the concern is that much of the information available publicly is state-controlled.
Nepal glacial disaster and the new geography of climate risk
On August 26, the Himalayas seemed to move. An enormous mass of ice and rock broke loose near the Nepal-Tibet border, plunging into the Lhende Khola River and unleashing a wall of water, mud, boulders and debris down the...
Nepal Flash Flood Latest Live News: Death Toll Nears 600, Over 2,400 Missing as Barrier Lake Threat Persists
The death toll nears 600 as more than 2,400 people remain missing, while rescuers face fresh risks from unstable barrier lakes. The post Nepal Flash Flood Latest Live News: Death Toll Nears 600, Over 2,400 Missing as Barrier Lake...
The Avalanche They Won’t Speak Of: China’s Silence on Tibet’s Glacier Collapse
By Khedroob Thondup When a glacier high above the Langtang Lirung peak sheared away and plummeted more than two kilometres into the valley below, the earth itself shuddered. The ice avalanche released seismic energy equivalent to a 5.2 magnitude...
Tibet flood videos, survivors’ pleas vanish online as China censors tragedy
A horrifying video showing a wall of floodwater sweeping through Gyirong Port on the Tibet-Nepal border has become a rare visual record of the scale of destruction in China-controlled Tibet. The footage showed hundreds of people running for safety...
Nepal-Tibet floods live: Death toll passes 600, nearly 3,000 people still missing
Rescuers in Nepal and China's autonomous region of Tibet were still battling Saturday to locate thousands of people missing days after deadly flash floods swept through the Himalayan region, engulfing villages. The number of missing rose to nearly 3,000...
China-Nepal floods: rescuers pull 2 survivors out of rubble near Tibet border crossing
Chinese rescuers continued searching for survivors from this week’s devastating floods along the border with Nepal as the operation passed a critical 72-hour window. Two villagers near the Gyirong border checkpoint were rescued from the rubble at around 1am...
Nepal floods: Toll rises to 616 as heavy rain halts rescue ops, morgues run out of space
Authorities have recovered 616 bodies as the death toll of the August 26 flash flood in Rasuwa district of Nepal continues to rise, while 2301 people were injured and rescued, Nepal Police said.






























