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A flooded home, with damaged trucks on its roof, along the banks of the Trishuli River, following the deadly flash floods and mudslides in Nuwakot district, Bagmati province, Nepal, September 8. REUTERS/Anushree Fadnavis

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A man pours mud out of a window of a flood-damaged home following deadly flash floods and a mudslide, in Devighat, Nuwakot district, Nepal, September 10. REUTERS/Tyrone Siu

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Nuwakot, Nepal
Residents commute across the Trishuli River on a newly installed zip wire after the deadly flash floods and mudslides. Rescuers continue to find survivors more than 10 days on from the disaster.

Photograph: Niranjan Shrestha/AP

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Kathmandu, Nepal
Children attend a gathering to observe a national day of mourning for victims of flash floods and mudslides triggered by a glacier collapse. At least 1,342 people were killed in Nepal, with a further 5,000 remaining missing across the region.

Photograph: Prakash Mathema/AFP/Getty Images

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Aftermath

Devighat, Nepal
Rescue workers inspect damaged structures after the recent flash flooding along the Trishuli River in Devighat. The disaster was triggered by a glacier collapse that sent a deluge of ice, rock and mud through Nepal’s border region with China.

Photograph: Rajesh Kumar Singh/AP

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A man pulls a makeshift zip line carrying people across the Trishuli River from Koloni after landslides and mudslides damaged bridges, leaving people temporarily stranded in Trishuli, Nuwakot district, Nepal, September 2. REUTERS/Francis Mascarenhas

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A woman helps a boy put up a photograph of her missing relative on a wall lined with images of missing and deceased people outside a government hospital in Kathmandu. [Dar Yasin/AP Photo]

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Kathmandu, Nepal
Symbolic funerals are conducted for missing relatives using kush grass effigies, in accordance with Nepali Hindu rites.

Photograph: Prakash Mathema/AFP/Getty Images

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Devighat, Nepal
A photograph on a mud-coated mattress outside a house in the aftermath of flash floods
Photograph: Manan Vatsyayana/AFP/Getty

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In these days, my Buddhist Tanka, which I bought in Nepal, are way more intense than usual. I never realised that my home much reflected my travels, but I am glad to have the chance to rest my mind and thoughts surrounded by these many peaceful elements, contributing to my inner balance. Good luck Nepal 🇳🇵! God speed! 🪷

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The unfortunate tragedy happened between the Tibet - Nepal border is beyond words. So many lives have gone lost: lives of humans, lives of animals and of the Natural Kingdom. Not the first, not the last, but when will we ever learn to respect this planet more, which we call Home? 🥹🪷😔
For years, I went to Kathmandu on holiday to support an orphanage and help as far as I could. Golden memories, indeed!

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Trishuli, Nepal
Mud covers buildings following devastating floods at Trishuli. The power, volume and speed of the floods gave little time for escape. Trucks were overturned, and houses, roads ⁠and power plants were swept away in Nepal, while ​officials in Tibet said they feared ‘major casualties’ after a mudslide hit a border crossing
Photograph: Navesh Chitrakar/Reuters

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Residents look at the devastation left by flash flooding in Nuwakot.

Photograph: Sanjit Pariyar/NurPhoto/Shutterstock

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A glacier collapse unleashed a huge torrent of rock, ice, mud and debris through Himalayan mountain river systems, killing hundreds with thousands still missing.

https://www.reuters.com/pictures/nepal-heartbreaking-scenes-after-deadly-flash-floods-2026-08-28/

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#ClimateDiary I watched my village disappear in an instant.

“When I finally reached someone — an elder brother’s house — it was his wife who answered. “There’s nothing left in the village,” she said simply. “Most of the people are gone.”

I couldn’t make myself believe it. Sole and Tupche sit nearly a hundred metres above the riverbed. No flood in living memory — in centuries, as far as anyone knew — had ever reached that high.” #Nepal #Glacier

https://kathmandupost.com/province-no-3/2026/08/27/i-watched-my-village-disappear-in-an-instant

While #Musk may be keen to appear to be a savour in the current crisis in #Nepal with his #Starlink satellite communications systems, there are a couple of angles to consider to this.

Firstly, Musk was the man who less than 18 months ago while heading up #Doge ensured there were $39 million of cuts in aid to #Nepal.

https://english.ratopati.com/story/39196

Hundreds missing as wall of mud and rock devastates Nepal-Tibet border

Devastating flooding struck the Nepal-Tibet border after a massive mudslide collapsed into a Himalayan river, sweeping away villages and leaving hundreds missing as rescue teams race to reach affected areas.

https://www.reuters.com/pictures/hundreds-missing-wall-mud-rock-devastates-nepal-tibet-border-2026-08-26/

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The border crossing between Nepal and China has been hit by a flash flood, hundreds of people are missing.

Likely that a glacier broke and released a sudden deluge into the valley. ABC have a video of the scene taken on CCTV, but be warned it's very confronting.

They've setup a page for live updates...
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-08-27/nepal-flooding-live-updates-australians-missing/107082946

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Impact Of Urbanization Driven Land Use And Land Cover Change On Ecological Environmental Quality In Rupandehi Nepal Assessed Using The Remote Sensing Ecological Index

https://doi.org/10.1007/s44288-026-00650-y <-- shared paper

https://kathmandupost.com/money/2026/02/18/rupandehi-s-continued-urban-sprawl-comes-at-a-cost-for-agriculture-in-the-periphery <-- shared media article

H/T@ Gaurav Parajulim
“[The authors] studied how the ecological quality of Nepal's Rupandehi District has changed over three decades (1993–2023), using satellite imagery and the Remote Sensing Ecological Index (RSEI) to track the health of the landscape year by year and to understand how urbanization-driven land use change has reshaped it.
What [they] found tells a nuanced story: as Butwal and Bhairahawa grew and built-up land expanded, ecological quality shifted in ways that a single number can't capture, some areas recovered, others declined, and the patterns rarely moved in a straight line…”

“Rapid urbanization and population growth are major drivers of land use and land cover (LULC) change and can substantially alter ecological environmental quality (EEQ). This study assessed the spatiotemporal dynamics of LULC and their effect on EEQ in Rupandehi District, Nepal, over a 30-year period (1993–2023). Four ecological indicators representing greenness, wetness, dryness, and heat were derived from Landsat imagery in Google Earth Engine (GEE), and LULC was classified using a Support Vector Machine (SVM). The Remote Sensing Ecological Index (RSEI) was then constructed from these indicators using Principal Component Analysis (PCA) in ArcGIS Pro, and its spatial structure was examined using global and local spatial autocorrelation. The mean RSEI followed a non-linear trajectory, rising from 0.59 in 1993 to 0.635 in 2004, declining to 0.55 in 2013, and recovering to 0.67 in 2023, indicating an overall improvement in EEQ with a temporary mid-period decline. Over the same period, built-up areas expanded substantially and agricultural land declined, whereas forest cover fluctuated but showed a slight net increase by 2023, and barren land decreased markedly. Higher EEQ was concentrated in the forested northern hills, while lower values occurred in the urban centers of Butwal and Bhairahawa, closely matching the spatial pattern of LULC change. The results indicate that ecological quality reflects the combined influence of all land cover classes rather than any single class. This study provides a transferable and reproducible workflow for long-term ecological assessment based on openly available Landsat data, with the analysis code shared in a public repository, offering practical guidance for sustainable land management and environmentally responsible urban development...”
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