Today marks a month since the catastrophic Bhotekoshi-Trisuli flood on Sep 26, 2026. A month of what we experienced the unexplainable. A disaster at a scale no one had imagined of and certainly were not prepared for.
What caused it?
Natural calamities and its impacts on Nepal's economy
It took just minutes for a transboundary surge of ice, water, and rock to erase decades of development along the Bhote Koshi river system.As the ruins of Rasuwa sit frozen in time, a country that emits almost zero greenhouse gases faces an unimaginable NPR 723 billion recovery bill. How did a localized mountain anomaly morph into a macroeconomic catastrophe that a nation must bear alone?
Investigations — for subscribers
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