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Jeepneys and vehicles navigate flooded streets in Malabon, Metro Manila, Philippines.

Opinion / Carbon & Climate

Rethinking flood protection through a ‘no-regret’ lens

...flood-protection investments continue where resources allow. Indonesia, for example, is implementing its US$400 million National Urban Flood Resilience Project. Yet where flooding persists or projects...

1 Sep 2026

Rethinking flood protection through a ‘no-regret’ lens

Opinion / Cities

Himalayan hazards are becoming more complex, our warning systems need to catch up

...floods or glacial lake outburst floods (Glofs). But this disaster was neither a Glof nor a regular flood. Instead, it appears to have involved a rare, large-scale collapse of rock and ice, which turne...

8 Sep 2026

Himalayan hazards are becoming more complex, our warning systems need to catch up

Opinion / Cities

Himalayan floods, climate crisis and the need for disaster diplomacy

...flood downstream. The unexpected flash flood entered Nepal’s Rasuwa district from Tibet at around 9:15 am on 10 August 2026, quickly affecting Timure, Rasuwagadhi and Syabrubesi. It damaged private ho...

8 Sep 2026

Himalayan floods, climate crisis and the need for disaster diplomacy

News / Cities

Poor infrastructure and land use worsen India’s monsoon floods

...floodplain restoration, wetland conservation, reducing development in floodplains, improved drainage, and community preparedness. Sneha Ganguly, researcher, the Red Cross Red Crescent Climate Centre ...

23 Aug 2026

Poor infrastructure and land use worsen India’s monsoon floods

News / Energy

Flood disaster tests Nepal’s hydropower ambitions and exports

...floods in the snow-fed rivers amid rising global temperatures. The Aug. 26 floods that originated on the Nepal-China border, and which knocked out around 10 per cent of installed power from the nation...

3 Sep 2026

Flood disaster tests Nepal’s hydropower ambitions and exports

News / Carbon & Climate

Tiny glacial lakes in the Himalayas pose unexpected flooding threats

...Floods from small lakes: fast-forming and sensitive What happened at Rasuwagadhi is not the first case of a glacial lake outburst flood (GLOF) from a smaller lake. In August 2024, a flash flood struck...

14 Sep 2026

Tiny glacial lakes in the Himalayas pose unexpected flooding threats

News / Water

The growing Himalayan risks in Bhutan’s hydropower ties with India

...floods in Nepal highlight the need “to consider a broader range of cascading and compound hazards [in the Himalayan mountains]” rather than conventional rainfall and flooding risks alone, says Michael...

13 Oct 2026

The growing Himalayan risks in Bhutan’s hydropower ties with India

News / Policy & Finance

Thailand seeks Japan's backing for flood-control projects as climate risks intensify

...flood mitigation, with a multi-billion-dollar programme designed to protect against major flood events. The bank said faster implementation of integrated flood management, improved hydrometeorological...

17 Jul 2026

Thailand seeks Japan's backing for flood-control projects as climate risks intensify

Opinion / Carbon & Climate

Who is responsible for Nepal’s tragedy?

...floodplain development, households and workers bore the consequences when those assets were swept away. The warning signs were already there. The 2021 Melamchi flood in Sindhupalchowk District began w...

21 Sep 2026

Who is responsible for Nepal’s tragedy?

Opinion / Policy & Finance

Warming Himalayas: Nepal’s climate justice test

...flood in the Himalayas along the Nepal-China border”. They said climate change and rising temperatures in the Himalayan region contributed significantly to the disaster. Floods in the Himalayan region...

29 Sep 2026

Warming Himalayas: Nepal’s climate justice test

The 26 August failure occurred in Nepal’s Langtang National Park near the border with China.

News / Carbon & Climate

Glacier-driven Nepal flood shows mounting risks in warming Himalayas

More than 900 people have been killed and nearly 5,000 remain missing after floods swept through Nepal and neighbouring Tibet, leaving rescuers searching for survivors as scientists work to determine ...

1 Sep 2026

Glacier-driven Nepal flood shows mounting risks in warming Himalayas

News / Water

Nepal is a warning: Climate adaptation must become a global priority

After Nepal’s flash flood in the last week of August, I sought to get first-person accounts of the tragedy. I wanted to learn how People’s Courage International, the non-profit I lead, can better supp...

15 Oct 2026

Nepal is a warning: Climate adaptation must become a global priority

A Kerala-Singapore climate technology partnership would therefore be more than environmental cooperation. It could become an industrial strategy

Opinion / Cities

Kerala could become Singapore’s climate technology laboratory

...flood management. Kerala has experienced repeated episodes of extreme rainfall and flooding, demonstrating that conventional drainage infrastructure alone cannot solve the problem. The next generation...

21 Sep 2026

Kerala could become Singapore’s climate technology laboratory

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News / Carbon & Climate

The part Chinese AI could play in predicting extreme weather

...Flood warnings were issued and trains halted. Sudden localised events like this are hard to predict. In August last year, a flash flood in the usually arid Yuzhong, Gansu province killed 32 people and...

6 Oct 2026

The part Chinese AI could play in predicting extreme weather

Commuters are trapped by monsoon floodwaters along UN Avenue

News / Policy & Finance

Philippines’ proposed climate budget edges up to US$11 billion but tagging questions persist

...flood control projects later embroiled in corruption allegations. The planned spending comes after weeks of heavy monsoon rains and flooding across parts of the Philippines, including Metro Manila and...

18 Aug 2026

Philippines’ proposed climate budget edges up to US$11 billion but tagging questions persist

News / Cities

As Pakistan’s monsoon arrives, people with HIV worry

...flooding. Devastating riverine floods affected places like Buner, a district in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, and Punjab province. The floods claimed over a thousand lives, with 808 of these casualties reported...

8 Jul 2026

As Pakistan’s monsoon arrives, people with HIV worry

News / Carbon & Climate

Q&A: ‘There was a gap between alert and action’ in Nepal floods

...flood (GLOF). We don’t know whether the mass was triggered only on the 26th, or whether changes before also contributed to the bedrock failing and the flash floods that followed, with debris being co...

7 Sep 2026

Q&A: ‘There was a gap between alert and action’ in Nepal floods

Kenzin Valley in Nepal’s Rasuwa District

News / Carbon & Climate

Climate change warnings preceded Nepal disaster, say experts

...flood surge that entered Nepal through northern Rasuwa District. Communities were among the first and hardest hit, with more than a thousand people killed and thousands more remain missing, as the flo...

2 Sep 2026

Climate change warnings preceded Nepal disaster, say experts

Press Releases / UN Women

Nearly 160,000 women and girls impacted by Nepal flash floods

Kathmandu – An estimated 157,050 women and girls living in Nepal’s Rasuwa and Nuwakot districts have been directly and indirectly affected by flash floods that swept through c...

31 Aug 2026

Nearly 160,000 women and girls impacted by Nepal flash floods

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