2026-09-10 17:00:17
Kurz nach Mega-Flut - Schon wieder erschüttert riesige Wasserwalze Nepal #News #Nachrichten
sticky hot like South Asia. sweating properly. fruit goes off in the fruit bowl after weeks of transport... so moved it to the fridge. have given up on citrus fruit for now: back to cucumbers with chili and salt, an old favourite from Nepal.
dogs having meat essence ice lollies courtesy of daughter who thinks of these things.
NE Scotland summers will be more and more like this, steadily warmer and stormier, until the AMOC stops. then what? betting on when the icepack breaks up? …
Nepal floods highlight growing glacier risks in warming Himalayas https://news.mongabay.com/short-article/2026/08/nepal-floods-highlight-growing-glacier-risks-in-warming-himalayas/
Twelve days after flash floods on the Nepal-China border, very little is known about the victims in Tibet as China censors information to "unprecedented" levels (Jennifer Pak/NPR)
https://www.npr.org/2026/09/07/nx-s1-5960357/nepal-floods-qu…
Every story about Nepal right now should be leading with, or at least _mentioning_ climate change. This is literally the only one I've seen so far.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/videos/nepal-flash-floods-highlight-impact-153357041.html
We get a report from Nepal,
where at least 547 people are confirmed to have died
and over 1,500 are still missing
after a glacial collapse on Wednesday
sent a wall of ice, mud and rock into a Himalayan river,
triggering catastrophic flooding in the Nepal-Tibet border region
that swept away entire communities.
Nepali authorities say they have rescued more than 3,700 people so far.
Geologists say the flash floods were set off by a landslide and …
Als ik zo'n beetje de lengte van die rivier bekijk, zou bij een dergelijke instorting in Zwitserland Nederland ook in de problemen komen?
Climate crisis could be destabilising mountain areas like Nepal, experts warn | Nepal-Tibet flood disaster | The Guardian
https://www.
Instabiele rotspartij bedreigt Zwitsers dorp, maar een Nepal-scenario vreest men niet
Neeeeeeee!!!!! Niet Kandersteg!
Daar was ik al op vakantie toen ik nog in mijn moeders buik zat en veertig jaar later weer, nu met H in hetzelfde Gasthaus. 😥
https://archive.ph/s75Bv
Nach der verheerenden #Sturzflut im #Himalaya mit mehr als 1.000 Toten dauern die Rettungsarbeiten an.
Zahlreiche Dörfer, Brücken und #Wasserkraftwerke wurden zerstört. Ein massiver
For a physical website, I'd wish they would not write "creates energy" but rather "releases" *sigh*. https://phys.org/news/2026-09-nepal-devastating-wont-region-mountains.html
Under pressure from China, the new Nepalese government cancels academic conference on Tibetan and Himalayan studies.
https://kathmandupost.com/national/2026/08/05/nepal-overruled…
"Nepal-Tibet flood: this is the cost of not acting in the face of the climate crisis - Sunil Acharya"
#Nepal #Climate #ClimateChange
How Trump and Musk made the Nepal disaster worse, by glaciologist dr Heïdi Sevestre:
"What about early warning systems?"
SERVIR Hindu Kush Himalaya, a joint initiative by NASA, USAID and ICIMOD monitoring, had mapped landslide and flood hazard in these valleys since 2010.
The Trump administration’s aid freeze cut it in January 2025."
https…
Inondations au Népal et au Tibet : comprendre la catastrophe en carte et en images par satellite
https://www.lemonde.fr/planete/article/2026/08/29/les-inondations-au-nepal-et-au-t…
Correct framing from the Morning Star.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/nepal-tibet-flash-floods-himalayas-climate-crisis-glacier-mudslides-disaster
Nepal and China are still struggling to recover after the massive high-altitude glacier collapse that killed thousands https://www.earth.com/environment/nepal-and-china-are-struggling-to-recover-after-glacier-breaks-at-their-border/…
A tragedy - and at the end of the article, this: "The Himalayan region, which spans Nepal, India, China and Bhutan, is particularly vulnerable to floods and landslides because it is warming faster than the rest of the world as a result of the climate crisis. Research shows that extreme weather events such as heatwaves and torrential rains have become more frequent."
Yes, there is a #ClimateCrisis
A tragedy - and at the end of the article, this: "The Himalayan region, which spans Nepal, India, China and Bhutan, is particularly vulnerable to floods and landslides because it is warming faster than the rest of the world as a result of the climate crisis. Research shows that extreme weather events such as heatwaves and torrential rains have become more frequent."
Yes, there is a #ClimateCrisis
"Climate crisis could be destabilising mountain areas like Nepal, experts warn"
#Nepal #Climate #ClimateChange
The international community is scrambling to get aid into
flood-stricken parts of Nepal and Tibeton
as authorities warned that a lake formed at the site where the deadly torrents occurred was rising and at risk of bursting.
The catastrophic flash floods that hit Nepal and Tibet on Wednesday,
thundering down valleys and obliterating entire villages,
killed at least 359 people
and left more than 1,300 missing.
Efforts to locate those unaccounted …
"Vi har haft jordskred tidigare. Men aldrig så här. Den här förödelsens omfattning är helt unik", säger Ayush Joshi på Rädda Barnen i Nepal.
https://www.dn.se/varlden/radda-barnen-aldrig-sett-nagot-liknande/
"What we know about the link between Nepal’s flash floods and our climate crisis"
#Nepal #Climate #ClimateChange
Esta tragédia no #Nepal me pegou mais forte porque, hš relativamente poucos dias, eu vi um vídeo de um cara turistando por lš. Ele inclusive ficou uns dias em uma vilazinha agradabilíssima, vendo de perto como é a vida dos locais, e é difícil não se preocupar com o bem-estar daquelas pessoas tão agradšveis.
E agora estou outra vez boquiaberto. Houve quem sobrevivesse Šquilo. Inacreditavelmente, houve quem sobrevivesse Šquilo.
https://www.publico.pt/2026/08/26/mundo/noticia/kumal-sobreviveu-violentas-cheias-nepal-gracas-arvore-2186188…
Rescue teams are working to reach more than 900 missing hydropower workers,
hundreds of whom are feared trapped in the tunnels and underground areas of 12 hydropower projects in Nepal
after the devastating flash floods, the country’s disaster management authority has said.
The death toll from the unprecedented deluge of ice, rock, mud and debris on Wednesday last week
has risen to 939 people,
with 16 more dead reported in Tibet.
More than 4,400 are missi…
Seeing these images and videos of the Grand Canyon and esp. Phantom Ranch... Instant throwback to watching @… trail running rim-to-rim past those places just a few months ago...
Incomparable in tragedy, loss and scale of what happened in Nepal this week, but still sad here too and the walls of the nearby "The Box" section clearly…
Nepal pushes for hydropower in protected areas through legal grey area https://news.mongabay.com/2026/08/nepal-pushes-for-hydropower-in-protected-areas-through-legal-grey-area/
Just finished "What Elephants Know" by Eric Dinerstein. Leaves me with very mixed feelings: it's a novel in many ways about Nepal, and I don't doubt that the author's experience living there gives him a not-insignificant window into the culture, plus there are multiple people mentioned in the acknowledgements as judging faithfulness to Nepali culture. I myself have no direct connection to the country, nor enough knowledge to see any clear inaccuracies in the writing, nor ways in which it directly disrespects the culture.
That said, my instincts say this is a portrayal of the culture and country that probably elides much about the downsides of foreign influence and the monarchy (something I naturally distrust as an anarchist). At minimum, the internal contradiction is clear between the police as an inept and dangerous institution when encountered directly, but as a clean and unproblematic way to resolve problems with criminals when the Maroons subplot needs wrapping up. This is typical of neoliberals who have begun to acknowledge the most obvious problems with police but who refuse to admit the necessity of police abolition. Furthermore, there's a strong thread of white saviorism thrown in, and a big piece of meritocracy to go along with it. This story presents only highly particular fictionalized solutions to the real structural problems facing the elephants and other animals it describes, and the solutions it imagines require reliance on institutions which are in the real world fundamentally untrustworthy.
I enjoyed learning about the ecology of the Nepali borderlands, and about the cultures surrounding elephants there, plus some of the diversity of religions and cultures that interact in the area, and the story was satisfyingly written in terms of the main character's trials and responses to them, if I disregard the issues mentioned above.
If anyone has recommendations for novels in English (including via translation) by actual Nepali authors, I'd love to hear them, as I'll be looking for that perspective to balance this one.
#AmReading #ReadingNow #Bookstodon
the Nepal flash flood just keeps getting more tragic. terrifying.
Bereits über 600 Tote - Nepal: Dieser See könnte nächste Todeswelle werden #News #Nachrichten
Lmao, didn't move my finger quick enough so put the last one in the middle of Nepal 😂
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The Nepalese government has requested
“specific and specialised assistance” from neighbouring countries
to aid search and rescue efforts.
This includes assistance with opening tunnels where people are trapped,
technologies that can help locate people alive in affected areas,
rapid forensic and DNA analysis,
and mortuary facilities for the proper storage of bodies, Nepal’s ministry of foreign affairs said in a statement.
It added: “An 11-member specia…
Catastrophic flood across Nepal unleashed by glacier collapse https://www.earth.com/earth-science/catastrophic-flood-across-nepal-unleashed-by-glacier-collapse/
Man, Fosstodon was down so I popped into Threads this morning and the videos coming out of Nepal are staggering.
"Climate crisis probably weakened glacier that caused devastating Nepal-Tibet floods, first study finds"
#Nepal #Climate #ClimateChange
Todesflut im Himalaya - Nepal: Satellitenbilder zeigen massive Zerstörung #News #Nachrichten
China Censors and Punishes to Shape Narrative on Floods in Tibet, a Contrast to Nepal - The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/01/world/asia/china-tibet-floods-nepal-censorship.html
Nepal floods death toll tops 900, as number of missing nearly doubles to more than 4,200 (Rudy Chinchilla/NBC News)
https://www.nbcnews.com/world/asia/death-toll-nepal-floods-tops-900-number-missing-nearly-doubles-rcna595267
http://www.memeorandum.com/260831/p39#a260831p39
Zerstörung durch Flut - Katastrophe von Nepal: Steirer wollen jetzt helfen #News #Nachrichten
#Disaster #Nepal #Glacier
if you want a decent compilation of the videos coming out of Nepal I found this one that's pretty good.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5RoJX4SATYw
no truly graphic stuff but it is a massive flood and people died
Estou aqui completamente embasbacado. Acabei de ver as imagens da enxurrada do Nepal. Porra! Nem o tsunami do Índico me deixou tão boquiaberto.
"Analysis: Nepal’s $20m ‘loss-and-damage’ claim only covers 0.7% of flood costs"
#Nepal #UN #UnitedNations
Trump and the consequences of the climate crisis
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/picture/2026/aug/28/martin-rowson-trump-consequences-climate-crisis-cartoon?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other
Trump and the consequences of the climate crisis
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/picture/2026/aug/28/martin-rowson-trump-consequences-climate-crisis-cartoon?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other
En kan iemand van de eindredactie dit stukkie herverbeteren? https://www.volkskrant.nl/buitenland/india-stuurt-tonnen-aan-humanitaire-hulp-naar-nepal~bbca6a80/?moment_id=bc88db9a-cf9a-4290-a1d6-b077ac031429
> Het zou volgens hindoes is het de troon van god Shiva;
> Vrijwel iedereen reist naar Nepal en steekt over bij steken over bij de belangrijkste grensovergang, bij de Chinese stad Gyirong, dat nu juist midden in het rampgebied ligt.
It hurts. @…
Unappetitliche Ursache - Wie der Mensch den Everest zum Schmelzen bringt #News #Nachrichten
[Arbeitsbedingungen von Sherpas durch Drohneneinsatz verbessert]
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/29/travel/flash-flood-nepal-global-warming-himalayas.html?unlocked_article_code=1.9VA.9Nl5.znV4gFrpyetK&smid=url-share
It was Indra Jatra in Kathmandu yesterday and it's यंलाथ्व पूह्नी tonight. So many ancient, brilliantly vivacious, and dynamic collective rituals!
Here is an article that pitches into the debate currently dividing scholars of Nepal, and Newa culture in particular, about how a famous art historian stole rather a lot of Newar art.
https://
“DOGE famously used keyword searches for terms like ‘climate’ to terminate federal grants,” Konyndyk wrote, referring to the DOGE-led blitz to gut funding for USAID.
“Among the victims: a collab between USAID and NASA for flood prediction, early warning, disaster readiness, glacier inventories, and mapping dangerous glacial lakes… in Nepal.”
Unsettling question raised over Trump admin's role in devastating Nepal floods - Raw Story
https://www.rawstory.com/nepal-floods-2677795114/
Across New York’s Nepali and Tibetan diaspora,
the flood has stirred grief and fear for relatives back home,
and desperation to help in any way possible.
More than 600 people have been confirmed dead,
and almost 3,000 remain missing,
including Tamang’s grandmother’s sister.
“My grandmother’s sister, she’s really like a grandmother to me,” Tamang said, her voice trembling.
“I don’t think there’s any chance she survived.”
Across the border in Tib…
Todesflut ohne Regen - Nepal-Drama: Jetzt wächst die Angst vor Welle zwei #News #Nachrichten
Thousands missing from dozens of countries after Nepal flooding (Rena Rowe/Washington Examiner)
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/world/4702436/thousand-missing-dozens-countries-nepal-flooding/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260827/p38#a260827p38
Sturzflut in Nepal - Hunderte Reisende vermisst: Video zeigt Todeswelle #News #Nachrichten
Another #Nepal mountain landslide
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0MfYa8Prcy8
Nepal Rescuers Bore Through Tunnels to Try to Reach 900 Workers Missing After Floods - The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/29/world/asia/nepal-flood-hydropower-tunnels-rescue-missing-workers.html
Nepal flood death toll surges as 65 Americans listed among hundreds of people still missing (CBS News)
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/nepal-tibet-missing-flash-flooding-mud-flow-glacier-collapse/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260827/p4#a260827p4
The Himalayas are melting faster - and India's economy is 'at risk' #India
#GiftLink
As Deadly Flash Flooding Batters Nepal, Some Fear ‘the Entire Himalayas Are Melting’ - The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/29/travel/flash-flood-nepal-global-warming-himalayas.html?unlocked_article_code=1.9FA.PWYs.zm56LG8Ip32u&smid=url-share
Deadly Nepal Flood May Have Been Caused by Ice Snapping Off Glacier, Scientists Say (Leo Sands/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/26/world/asia/nepal-flood-glacier-ice-avalanche.html?unlocked_article_code=1.8VA.BVBg.e5rmQEXOCoKv&smid=nytcore-ios-share
http://www.memeorandum.com/260826/p98#a260826p98
Earth's futures can be divided into two categories: futures which support human life and those that don't.
The IPCC reports have avoided framing things this way, but burn enough fossil fuels quickly enough and you tip over into the later.
Note that this logic applies to any sub-region of the Earth too: some unknown number of years ago, thanks to ExxonMobil's sales of oil and duplicity about the known risks, the tipping point into "unlivable future" was crossed with respect to a segment of the Trishuli river in Nepal, and just this year that future was realized quite suddenly. In individual apartments across North America and Europe this summer thousands of people found themselves in unlivable futures due to heat waves, and millions more avoided that fate narrowly through the use of air conditioning which could well fail in future heat waves...
What the IPCC reports have been detailing for literally more than three decades is what it would take to tip things the other way. They report this in various forms, but usually at the level of how much CO2 emissions can be permitted on what schedule in order to prevent (locally-)unlivable futures (abstracted as a number of degrees of warming relative to a baseline).
The IPCC reports of emissions and mitigations can be translated into actions: what kind of policy would have to be enacted when by which government in order to avoid an unlivable future. In general however, hierarchical nation-states have proven collectively incapable of meeting *any* of these targets, and so indeed, translating emissions targets into policy actions is increasingly impossible, and has always been an improbable path towards survival. The longer nation states fail to meet the necessary emissions goals (or even accelerate oil drilling), the more drastic action is necessary. We can continue to talk about what kind of national policies might avoid unlivable futures, even as those futures are realized for more and more people, but national policies are not the only kinds of actions that can change the future. Fire example, a national policy shutting down an oil pipeline might avert a certain amount of emissions, but the pipeline owner could also shut it down themselves, or an activist could sabotage it, and the effect would be the same. Lots of different actors have different kinds of actions they can take to create similar effects, and it's the effects that are necessary to avoid unlivable futures.
Effectively, assuming that we will not wind up in a totally unlivable future, this leads to a principle of action substitution. We know what effects are necessary, and if nation states refuse to enact those via policies and companies likewise refuse to make any voluntary changes, then the only actions that remain to be taken are drastic direct actions. Simply put: the longer nations and corporations refuse to do anything to create livable futures, the more people will simply take direct action to achieve the needed carbon emissions reductions, because the alternative for them is death and that alternative is becoming clearer with each climate casualty, so it will be increasingly impossible to threaten them into giving up their lives for corporate profits.
#ClimateChange #ClimateEmergency
Nepal:
Video of devastating flood with 40 Americans missing floors Erin Burnett: 'Unforgettable' - Raw Story
https://www.rawstory.com/nepal-floods/
Catastrophic floods kill over 270 in Nepal and Tibet, with more than 1,300 missing (Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/climate-change-nepal-tibet-glacier-collapse-floods-61b592d428e4631add31ce052d0daf1f
http://www.memeorandum.com/260827/p14#a260827p14
Hundreds still missing as China clears Tibet border port erased by deadly flood
https://www.nbcnews.com/world/asia/tibet-nepal-border-rescue-rare-access-gyirong-rcna596132
Rescuers search for survivors after devastating Nepal flood (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/environment/rescuers-search-survivors-after-devastating-nepal-flood-2026-08-27/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260827/p1#a260827p1
Sex work or starve: Aid workers in Nepal left jobless by USAID cuts turn to sex work to survive (Kristen Gelineau/Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/usaid-nepal-sex-workers-trump-budget-cuts-d8ea21ca4d43f1598ea54499123d46e0
http://www.memeorandum.com/260723/p84#a260723p84
China Says 261 Foreigners From 23 Countries Are Missing in Tibet Flood - The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/30/world/asia/tibet-nepal-flood-death-toll-china.html
What a reporter learned covering the impact of USAID cuts on aid workers-turned-sex workers in Nepal (Kristen Gelineau/Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/usaid-nepal-sex-workers-reporter-qa-1db4069a06807bf539149561fd4b829a
http://www.memeorandum.com/260723/p45#a260723p45
Die grässliche Katastophe in Nepal zeigt wieder einmal die Relationen Mensch-Natur.
Aber Bundesrat Rösti wedelt mit ein paar Milliönchen, sagt, die Klimaziele der Schweiz 2030 sind leider nicht mehr zu erreichen und bleibt Mann der Fossilindustrie.
Und er erinnert sich plötzlich wieder ans bundesrätliche Kollegialsystem! Krass.
🤬🤯🤬
#RöstiMussWeg #FührenInDerKrise #fossileLobby #Klientelpolitik #Klimaerwärmung #NaturGewalten #Nepal #Blatten #Lebensgrundlage #SolarPunk #neueWege #gemeinsam
‘Immense impact’ of Nepal flood disaster highlighted as casualties mount | UN News
https://news.un.org/en/story/2026/08/1168221