Cross-border disasters along China’s frontiers are putting Beijing’s neighbourhood diplomacy to the test as climate shocks grow and expose strategic vulnerabilities. The stakes were highlighted last week after a sudden glacial collapse in the Himalayas unleashed a torrent of...

The glacier collapse that led to devastating flash floods across the Himalayan region of Nepal and its border with the Chinese autonomous region of Tibet on August 26 was preceded by early warning signs, experts say. But monitoring and...

Officials said the workers were safely rescued from tunnels that were at a depth of 170 metresTwo people have been pulled out alive from a hydropower tunnel in Nepal nine days after deadly flash floods left them trapped.The workers...

Relatives try to piece together information found online and from Nepal as Tibet advocates groups say information is suppressed in ChinaFan Hong last heard from her husband on the morning of the Nepal-Tibet disaster. More than a week later,...

Prof Richard Bassed helped identify Boxing Day tsunami and victims of Australia’s catastrophic Black Saturday bushfires. ‘The randomness of this massive flood,’ he says. ‘That gets to you’Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastThe bodies...

1,000 casualties on the Nepalese side of the border, less than 20 on the Tibetan one, said the CCP. If you dispute the figure, you go to jail. The post Tibet: The Mudslide Buried Homes, the Communist Party Buried...

An insider said authorities detected danger minutes before the disaster but failed to raise the alert or order an evacuation.

South Asian correspondent Azadeh Moshiri is at the site of a tunnel where rescuers still hope to find survivors following the Nepal-Tibet floods.

As of earlier this week, 30 Canadians were still missing after devastating floods

A Hong Kong Nepalese man is searching for his cousin who is missing after the catastrophic flood struck the Himalayan border between Nepal and Tibet. Y.B. Gurung, a 64-year-old retiree, told the South China Morning Post that he last...

The flash floods, triggered by an ice-rock avalanche near the Nepal-Tibet border on August 26, devastated towns and villages in northern and central Nepal, leaving a trail of destruction.

Khalte’s residents survived one disaster – but were left vulnerable to the next.

How do you warn people downstream about fast-moving hazards that can change form and cross borders?

Fighting drought and combating desertification are climate obligations.

Security guards at the Chinese Embassy in London appeared to threaten protesters outside of their premises with electroshock weapons. A video obtained by The i Paper and published last week shows security guards, standing behind a gate, waving the...

An earthquake of magnitude five struck Tibet on Thursday. Rescue operations continue following catastrophic flooding near the Gyirong border crossing. The only road to the crossing reopened, allowing heavy machinery access. Authorities reported twenty-one deaths and 541 people remain...

A magnitude 5.0 earthquake struck Tibet on Sep 3, 2026, at 13:46:38 IST, 14 km deep. NCS reported it near Uttarakhand, India.

Authorities closed schools and suspended ferry routes in eastern China’s Fujian province on Thursday, after forecasters warned of heavy rain brought about by Typhoon Saudel. Extreme weather has wreaked havoc in parts of China during the past few months,...

Glaciers on the Tibetan Plateau are likely to become more unstable, which may lead to more collapses and collateral disasters, a senior climate official warns as the death toll from last week’s catastrophic landslide and flood on the China-Nepal...

On the morning of August 26, a glacial collapse caused catastrophic flooding and mudslides on the China-Nepal border, destroying a port and border crossing in Gyirong County in Shigatse, Tibet, and inundating communities on both sides of the border....

Darkened by soot from vehicles and factories, the region’s glaciers are absorbing more heat and melting at dangerous rates.

As rescue efforts have continued on both sides of the border following the devastating floods in Nepal and Tibet, a fight over how the disaster is being reported has been growing in intensity on social media. The dispute centers...

Social media dispute grows over China's alleged censorship of flood videos in Tibet, following BBC correspondent Laura Bicker's report.

More than 1, 000 people have died and thousands are missing, with communities relying on airlifted supplies.

Nepali families held symbolic funerals on Wednesday to “liberate the souls” of relatives missing since deadly flash floods swept away their villages and homes in the Himalayan region a week ago. Emergency teams have recovered more than 1,100 bodies,...