4+ day, 4+ hour ago   (577+ words) BRISBANE — More than 267,000 Australian properties and two million hectares of land could be damaged or lost to rising sea levels and coastal flooding, in a trend that could cost the nation $855 billion. Western Australia faces the greatest economic losses by…...

1+ week, 6+ hour ago   (1509+ words) KATHMANDU — Sixteen-year-old Samiksha Dangol was on her way home from school when she saw her father coming towards her. It was the morning of August 26 at Tribhuvan Trishuli Secondary School in Nuwakot, a district north-west of Kathmandu. Samikshya, a Grade…...

1+ week, 8+ hour ago   (208+ words) BEIJING — The death toll from a mudslide in eastern China rose to three on Sunday, after days of torrential rain brought by Typhoon Saudel. Nine others were still missing. The mudslide hit part of a village in Suichuan County in…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (1124+ words) KATHMANDU — When devastating floods tore through the river basins lying at Rasuwa and Nuwakot last week, reaching the affected areas by air became a challenge of its own. The landscape had been altered by landslides and flooding, while there was…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (200+ words) KATHMANDU — Two people were rescued alive on Saturday, 11 days after devastating floods in Nepal’s Bhotekoshi River left them missing. A Chinese national was rescued from Audit-4 of the Upper Trishuli-1 hydropower project in Rasuwa district, the Nepali Army said. The…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (1521+ words) KATHMANDU — Nima Dorje Tamang was in Hakubesi, a hamlet south of Syafrubesi in Rasuwa, when the flood struck. Before Tamang could prepare, he heard a thunderous roar and saw the flood gushing toward him, its waves taller than him. Tamang…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (1714+ words) KATHMANDU — When the flood came, Purna Bahadur Ghale had seconds to decide whether to run. The 43-year-old executive member of Uttargaya Rural Municipality was in Shanti Bazar when the Bhotekoshi river burst through settlements in Rasuwa on August 26. Someone shouted…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (1039+ words) This Q&A has been edited for clarity and length, and is based on an interview on Kantipur TV’s Fireside by Rupesh Shrestha. Minister, you recently returned from a field visit to Nuwakot. What is the real-world scale of this…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (673+ words) The government has sent an urgent request to the board of the Fund for Responding to Loss and Damage, a global climate finance mechanism, seeking financial assistance for Nepal following the deadly Bhotekoshi flood of August 26. The mechanism was established…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (889+ words) KATHMANDU — After days of dealing with bodies instead of patients, Bharatpur Hospital has returned to its regular medical services after authorities began temporarily burying unidentified flood victims and brought in additional forensic teams to ease the pressure on its overwhelmed…...