Nepal and Tibet are reeling from unprecedented floods that have killed more than 600 people. Experts tell James C. Reynolds that a warming planet could make these disasters more common and threaten water security for millions

Rescuers in Nepal and China were still battling Saturday to locate thousands of people missing days after a deadly, tsunami-like wall of water and debris swept through the Himalayan region, engulfing villages. The number of missing soared close to...

A tourist filming the mountainous landscape in Gyirong County in China’s Xizang Autonomous Region accidentally captured what experts believe was the high-altitude glacier collapse that triggered the deadly mudslide at Gyirong Port on the Nepal-China border. According to a...

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...

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...

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.

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...

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...

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...

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...