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Thousands of Tibetans offer prayers in Dharamshala for Nepal-Tibet flood... https://youtube.com/watch?v=DsdKXus8xA4&si=HXtF34GhPOKQoNVs

Langtang Hydropower Project Suffers Major Damage Due to Flood, Workers Trapped | Ratopati | No.1 Nepali News Portal https://english.ratopati.com/story/76492/35-workers-trapped-inside-tunnel-of-langtang-hydropower-project?utm_source=chatgpt.com

China Was Blasting Under the Collapsed Nepal Mountain! https://youtube.com/watch?v=7UZNk9GoAzs&si=zRog-IHs_GKpPLII

Photos May Show Warning Signs Before the Himalayan Collapse https://youtube.com/live/ECloQ9QrUA4?si=GgWzmY7ifPN0xoVX

It's Not Nice to Fool Mother Nature The natural flood disaster that ravaged the Tibetan side of the international border before leaving a vast trail of death and destruction in downstream Nepal is a powerful illustration of what geomorphological research has long documented: human alterations to mountain landscapes and river corridors can transform and magnify natural hazards. Satellite imagery and geological mapping indicate that an ice-and-rock avalanche sheared off from a Nepal-side glacier situated directly along the rim of the international boundary, then plunged 1.2 kilometers across the border into the upper basin on the Tibetan side before cascading into a transboundary river system. Extensive upstream infrastructure in the Tibetan border region compounded the downstream impacts through physical, structural and operational vulnerabilities. Artificial structures prevented floodwaters from naturally dispersing across the floodplain. Instead, they funneled the liquid-mud-rock mass through a narrow gorge, accelerating its velocity as it crossed into Nepal's Koshi and Trishuli river basins. This hyper-concentrated slurry, laden with sediment and construction debris, carried far greater kinetic force than clear floodwaters, becoming a battering ram that obliterated downstream bridges, roads and hydropower facilities. As British writer and philosopher Aldous Huxley observed, "If you want nature to treat you well, you must treat nature well. If you start destroying nature, nature will destroy you." The disaster wrecked much of China's upstream infrastructure, including Gyirong Port, its principal terrestrial gateway for bilateral trade with Nepal. Because Chinese authorities have censored disaster-related information, the death toll on the Tibetan side remains unknown. asia.nikkei.com/opinion/nepal-…

Upstream engineering, downstream disaster: The hidden factor in Nepal’s tragedy. My op-ed on how China’s upstream projects may have turned a natural disaster into a cascading catastrophe. According to Beijing's own statements over the past decade, it has expanded embankments, border facilities, highways and other civil works in the upstream river corridor, with significant construction concentrated along riverbanks. Its diversion weirs, intake structures, embankments and other hydrological modifications created localized bottlenecks in the Himalayan gorges. Realignment of riverbanks, concrete embankments and heavy border civil engineering (such as facilities around Gyirong Port) narrowed natural channels. Upstream hydraulic structures, including intake works, altered natural flow dynamics, creating secondary choke points that burst under pressure, exacerbating the sudden torrent downstream. asia.nikkei.com/opinion/nepal-…

Nepal Floods Today | Did China Let Nepal Drown? | Failed To Warn Rasuwa | Nepal Flood Reason | 4K - YouTube https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Zo_YRUN0k6s

Nepal-Tibet floods expose dangers of China's Himalayan gamble - Nikkei Asia https://asia.nikkei.com/opinion/nepal-tibet-floods-expose-dangers-of-china-s-himalayan-gamble

Israeli team races to Nepal to find missing Israelis | Israel National News https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/432337