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Rescuers have recovered the bodies of two Japanese climbers missing for over a week on a remote Himalayan mountain.
JAPAN
Oct 24, 2026
Two Japanese climbers die on remote Himalayan peak in Nepal
The climbers were attempting the first summit of the 7,140-meter Gangapurna West in alpine style, but lost contact after Oct. 15.
Two Japanese mountaineers believed to have been climbing Mount Gangapurna in the Himalayas have gone missing.
JAPAN
Oct 22, 2026
Two Japanese climbers missing in the Himalayas
The two Japanese nationals have been out of contact since Oct. 15 and local authorities have been searching for them.
The majestic Namcha Barwa in Tibet stands at the heart of the Medog Dam project, one of the world’s most ambitious hydroelectric undertakings.?
COMMENTARY / Japan
Oct 16, 2026
Japan and India must prepare for the risks of China’s Medog dam
Infrastructure investment in the Himalayas must go hand in hand with regional water cooperation and disaster resilience.
Nepali Prime Minister Balendra Shah addresses the 81st United Nations General Assembly in New York on Sept. 24, where he made a plea for climate justice in the wake of recent deadly glacial floods.
COMMENTARY / World
Oct 1, 2026
Nepal’s PM says when the house is burning, we act
Nepal is not a passive bystander to a remote emergency; it is its barometer, and the instruments are flashing red.
Snow-covered peaks of the Himalayas in Shigatse in China's Tibet region on Sept. 6.
ENVIRONMENT / Climate change
Sep 14, 2026
Himalayas approaching tipping point with millions of livelihoods at stake: report
As glaciers retreat, they are leaving behind unstable glacial lakes held back by little more than loose rock and ice.
Flooding damage on the Trishuli River in Betrawati, Nepal, on Sept. 4
ASIA PACIFIC
Sep 14, 2026
How China and Nepal are battling flood rumors online
Both countries have gone after fake posts on the flood, but Beijing has done more to suppress footage and punish people challenging official figures.
A woman walks past houses damaged by last month's massive flash floods in the town of Trishuli in Nepal's Nuwakot district on Friday.
COMMENTARY / World
Sep 13, 2026
Nepal takes its floods to the U.N. — and asks who will pay
Experts have attributed the flooding to a massive rockslide in the Himalayas, a hazard that climate change is making more frequent as the region warms.
The spillway, foreground, at Imja Lake in Nepal, an attempt to reduce flood hazard, in June 2025
ENVIRONMENT / Climate change
Sep 9, 2026
Nepal glacier saw exceptional heat before collapse caused deadly floods, data shows
Average temperatures on the mountain glacier at an altitude of 5,200 meters were estimated at around 5 degrees Celsius between Aug. 21 and 26.
Sanjay Sah, a survivor rescued from a tunnel of the Upper Trishuli 3A hydropower project nine days after deadly flash floods, is transported by rescuers in Nuwakot, Nepal, on Friday.
ASIA PACIFIC
Sep 8, 2026
How two men in Nepal survived nine days in a flooded tunnel
The rescue of the two men has given hope to search teams that some of the 121 workers still believed to be trapped underground are still alive.
A man is carried by members of a search and rescue team after being rescued along with another from a tunnel at the Trishuli-3A Hydropower Project, in Rasuwa, Nepal, on Friday.
ASIA PACIFIC
Sep 8, 2026
Nepali rescuers focus on 900 hydropower workers in wake of catastrophic floods
Officials say 121 people could be trapped in tunnels as Nepal marked the 13th day after the disaster.
Nepal is seeking compensation for climate change-related damages from a United Nations fund set up to help developing nations deal with the worst impacts of global warming.
ENVIRONMENT / Climate change
Sep 7, 2026
Nepal’s request for flood payout tests new climate-aid system
Costs are expected to come to at least $5 billion, an enormous amount for one of Asia’s poorest countries, and the fund it’s hoping to tap is new, underfunded and untested.
Nepal Police and Armed Police Force (APF) members search a house for survivors and victims of the deadly flash floods and a mudslide, in Betrawati, Nuwakot district, Nepal, on Sunday.
ASIA PACIFIC
Sep 7, 2026
Nepali woman found alive days after family began mourning rites
She had survived under the rubble of her four-story home in a narrow pocket of air amid water and mud.
Rescue workers conduct search and rescue operations at the disaster-hit area at Gyirong Port following the Aug. 26 mudslide, in Shigatse, Tibet Autonomous Region, China, on Sept. 2.
ASIA PACIFIC
Sep 6, 2026
At flood-destroyed China-Nepal border, no sign of a once-busy port
Rescue workers have divided the search area into seven zones, officials said. They have completed searches in four of them, with three remaining.
Nepal security personnel carry a Chinese national rescued Saturday from a tunnel of the Upper Trishuli-1 Hydropower Project site in Nepal's Rasuwa district in the aftermath of flash floods.
ASIA PACIFIC
Sep 6, 2026
Chinese national rescued from Nepal tunnel 10 days after flash flood
The man was the third person so far to be pulled out alive from various tunnels, where authorities believe 900 people might be stuck.
Flash flood survivors gather to receive utility aid from a temporary relief camp at Devighat in Nepal's Nuwakot district on Sept. 3.
ASIA PACIFIC / Society
Sep 4, 2026
Nepal floods ruin merchants and traders ahead of crucial festival season
The catastrophe struck just ahead of the crucial September-to-November Hindu festival season, when celebrations typically drive a surge in spending.
Rescue team members work to enter the tunnel at the Upper Trishuli 3A Hydropower Station as they search for survivors and retrieve bodies in Rasuwa, Nepal, on Sept. 3.
ASIA PACIFIC
Sep 4, 2026
How engineers in a WhatsApp group are guiding Nepal’s flood rescue efforts
Authorities hope some of the roughly 900 people reported missing at six hydropower plants may have escaped the deluge because they worked in or fled into tunnels.
The NTPC Tapovan Vishnugad hydropower plant project construction site in Chamoli district, Uttarakhand, India, in 2022
ENVIRONMENT / Energy
Sep 2, 2026
Fatal floods expose threats to hydropower in the roof of the world
A changing climate is bringing unstable glaciers and unpredictable rain, creating new risks and raising costs for hydropower projects.
Rajendra Dawadi, headmaster of Tribhuvan Trishuli Secondary School, at his house after he and his colleagues evacuated 900 students from the school minutes before flash floods destroyed the school building, in Nuwakot, Nepal, on Monday.
ASIA PACIFIC / Society
Sep 2, 2026
Over 900 Nepal students saved by call warning of flood and quick thinking
School’s successful evacuation offers a rare glimmer of hope in a natural disaster that has killed over 900 people with thousands still missing.
A swollen river near flood-damaged buildings in Devighat, Nepal, on Sunday.
ENVIRONMENT / Climate change
Sep 1, 2026
Nepal PM demands climate action after Himalayan disaster
While the exact cause of the collapse is unclear, climate change is causing glaciers to melt worldwide, increasing the risk of such disasters.
A funeral pyre is lit for a victim of deadly flash floods in Nepal, at the Suryamati River in Trishuli, Nepal, on Sunday.
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Aug 31, 2026
Before flood catastrophe, Nepal asked China for early warnings as risks mounted
Three months before hundreds were killed in the flood, experts and officials from both countries met in Kathmandu to discuss the risk of such disasters.
Two Japanese climbers die on remote Himalayan peak in Nepal
Rescuers have recovered the bodies of two Japanese climbers missing for over a week on a remote Himalayan mountain.
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U.S. military bans Chinese-made BYD cars from key air base in Okinawa
An F-22 Raptor lands at Kadena Air Base in Kadena, Okinawa Prefecture on Oct. 9. The base is a crucial hub for U.S. military operations in the region.
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