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Flooding

September 2026

  • Aerial view shows mud-covered village flooded by a river in Trishuli, Nepal, surrounded by green hills.

    This Is India
    ‘The mountains are changing’: What the floods tell us about the future of India’s Himalayas

    Newsletter
  • Bill McGuire

    The Nepal and Tibet flood is a warning: melting snow and ice will bring more disasters around the world

    Bill McGuire
  • A stone cabin at Grand Canyon's Phantom Ranch with a green door amid desert plants and canyon walls

    Remote Grand Canyon lodge hit by deadly flash flood boasts fabled history

  • puddles of water and mud cover ground near grand canyon

    How intense rains in the Grand Canyon turned into a deadly disaster

  • Muddy floodwater flows through Bright Angel Creek past debris and a destroyed stone footbridge

    Two people dead and nearly 80 rescued after Grand Canyon flash flood

  • Two soldiers in hard hats make their along a tunnel by torchlight

    Nepal rescuers race to reach hundreds feared trapped in hydropower tunnels

  • Guardian Opinion cartoon
    Ben Jennings on the end of the UK summer – cartoon

  • Border area between Nepal and China where 33 Australians are missing still almost entirely cut off

  • One dead and 15 people may be missing after flash flood in Arizona’s Grand Canyon

  • People look at a wall displaying photographs of people reported missing outside a hospital in Kathmandu, Nepal.

    Nepal-Tibet disaster: death toll exceeds 800 amid warnings of new flash floods – as it happened

    Searches continue as mass burials of unidentified victims begin days after floods and landslides hit Nepal-Tibet border
  • A man walks through mud carrying blankets

    Devastated by floods and overwhelmed by bodies, Nepalis weep for what remains of their homes

    Relatives of those missing have been given PowerPoint slideshows of recovered bodies in effort to speed up identification of the dead
  • people walk through floodwaters with supplies on a small boat

    Flooding devastated swathes of Indiana but response is hampered by politics

    Record inundations wrecked homes and took seven lives but Trump has not approved emergency aid and state has cut funds for environmental agencies
  • Rescue workers gather near landslide debris at Gyirong Port, China

    Number of missing in Nepal and Tibet rises to 3,000 as bad weather hampers search

    Nepal requests foreign ⁠help in identification and storing of bodies, DNA testing and rescuing people from tunnels
  • Survivors of the deadly flood in Nepal reflect on their experiences after a glacier collapse on Wednesday unleashed a huge torrent of rock, ice, mud and debris through Himalayan mountain river systems

    'I have lost everything': survivors reflect after deadly flood in Nepal – video

    Survivors of the deadly flood in Nepal reflect on their experiences after a glacier collapse on Wednesday unleashed a huge torrent of rock, ice, mud and debris through Himalayan mountain river systems
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  • A woman tapes a missing person poster to a wall after Nepal's flash floods, another woman beside her

    ‘Their whole village has disappeared’: frantic hunt for survivors in Kathmandu hospital

    Family members pin photos of Nepal’s missing to hospital wall as people try not to give up hope on loved ones
  • Survivors pulled from the mud in Nepal

    Search continues as number missing in Nepal-Tibet floods rises to 2,478 – as it happened

    Chinese rescue team reaches all-but-obliterated Gyirong border crossing complex to find ‘nothing but ruins’
  • A woman in Bidur covers her face with a cloth amid the flood devastation. More than 1,500 people are missing and at least 543 have been killed after an enormous section ⁠of a glacier in the Himalayas broke loose and crashed on to the valley floor in Nepal’s Langtang national park, unleashing a massive surge of water, mud, rock and ice that thundered down rivers and valleys. The resulting floods obliterated villages and destroyed power stations, roads and bridges.

    ‘The flood took everything I have’: survivors grieve for relatives and homes swept away in Nepal

    Army helicopters ferry survivors from inaccessible areas to a camp at a barracks in Bidur

    • Families of 33 missing Britons rush to Nepal as fears grow of more floods

    • On the ground in Nepal after deadly flash floods – video

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    • Chinese control of information hampers assessment of Tibet flood damage

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