Himalayan landslides can become deadly because steep slopes, fractured rock, glaciers, monsoon rainfall, earthquakes and river valleys interact. A collapse hig…
Exceptional monsoon rainfall, roughly 375% heavier than normal over four days, combined with the breach of the moraine-dammed Chorabari glacial lake to trigger flash flo…
A magnitude 7.8 earthquake shook Nepal on 25 April 2015, killing more than 8,500 people nationwide and triggering thousands of landslides. In Langtang Valley, the shakin…
Road widening, hydropower construction, slope cutting and tourism expansion increased how much infrastructure sat inside Himalayan valleys prone to slope failure. Not al…
Roughly 27 million cubic metres of rock and glacier ice collapsed from the north face of Ronti Peak, according to a Science study using satellite imagery, seismic record…
ICIMOD's HI-WISE report found that glaciers in the Hindu Kush Himalaya disappeared 65% faster during 2011-2020 than in the previous decade, warning of up to 80% glacier…
A section of South Lhonak Lake's moraine wall is understood to have collapsed, sending a wave through the lake that triggered a catastrophic glacial lake outburst flood…
Scientists and disaster agencies increasingly treated Himalayan hazards as connected systems, rainfall, unstable slopes, glaciers, lakes, rivers, roads and settlements,…
A large section of the Langtang Lirung glacier collapsed on the Tibetan side of the border, sending a fast-moving mass of mud, water, ice and rock through the Trishuli R…
After the Nepal-Tibet catastrophe, Nepal's disaster authorities began rebuilding warning networks with seismic sensors, cameras and satellite communication links along t…
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