South Asia · 27 August 2026 to 11 September 2026 · 107 headlines · New York Times, BBC News, Al Jazeera, Fox News, AP, CNN, South China Morning Post
The Nepal floods
The Nepal floods: a running story on the front pages of 7 newsrooms from 27 August 2026 to 11 September 2026, 107 headlines over 16 days.
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11 September 2026
10 September 2026
8 September 2026
- South China Morning Post ‘Nothing left’: Nepal flood survivors face a homeless future
7 September 2026
6 September 2026
- Al Jazeera Two more rescued in Nepal as 5,000 still missing 10 days after flood
- Al Jazeera Relatives hold cremations without bodies for Nepal’s missing flood victims
- BBC News Nepal bet nearly everything on hydropower - the floods show why that's a problem
- AP Satellite images show bedrock and glacier collapsed on Nepal-China border, then rivers flooded
5 September 2026
- AP 2 trapped workers pulled out alive from a hydropower tunnel 9 days after Nepal floods
- BBC News Nepal rescuers try to reach dozens trapped in tunnel after two found alive
- BBC News 'A rare moment of joy': Nepal tunnel rescues bring hope for more flood survivors
- BBC News Nepal bet nearly everything on hydropower - the floods show why that's a problem
- Al Jazeera Nepal rescues two workers from hydropower tunnel nine days after floods
- South China Morning Post After Nepal-Tibet floods, recovery depends on grass-roots solidarity
- BBC News Tunnel rescues bring hope that more flood survivors will be found
- AP Satellite images show bedrock and glacier collapsed on Nepal-China border, then rivers flooded
4 September 2026
- Al Jazeera Rescue efforts continue as Nepal-China flood death toll rises to 1,280
- BBC News Nepal tunnel rescuers hunt for survivors with rafts and drone
- Al Jazeera Nepal floods: Father borrows $13, walks for days to search for missing son
3 September 2026
- New York Times Visual Analysis Points to Bedrock as Likely Cause for Nepal’s Flash Floods
- BBC News Why Nepal floods should worry India
- CNN Race against time to find workers missing in Nepal’s hydropower tunnels. Here’s what we know
- AP As climate change warms the Himalayas, disasters like the Nepal floods are becoming more frequent
- AP Satellite images show bedrock and glacier collapsed on Nepal-China border, then rivers flooded
2 September 2026
- AP Mass burials in Nepal as death toll from flash floods exceeds 1,000
- Al Jazeera After the flash flood disaster, here is what Nepal really needs
- BBC News The final minutes before floodwater crashed through Nepal-China border
- South China Morning Post Nepal-China floods highlight a growing front of the climate change crisis
- Fox News State Department gives update on missing Americans after deadly Nepal flood kills over 900
- AP Satellite images show bedrock and glacier collapsed on Nepal-China border, then rivers flooded
1 September 2026
- AP Hundreds feared stuck in hydropower tunnels as flood deaths surpass 950 in Nepal and China
- CNN Mass burial in Nepal for unidentified flood victims as death toll rises
- South China Morning Post Nepal floods: meet the principal whose quick thinking saved 900 students
- Al Jazeera After the flash flood disaster, here is what Nepal really needs
- AP The odds of survival for those trapped after Nepal flood
- Fox News State Department gives update on missing Americans after deadly Nepal flood kills 903
- AP Satellite images show bedrock and glacier collapsed on Nepal-China border, then rivers flooded
31 August 2026
- BBC News Nepal intensifying efforts to free hundreds believed trapped in hydropower tunnels
- Al Jazeera Nepal-China floods: What’s the latest death toll, how many remain missing?
- BBC News Head teacher evacuated 900 children minutes before Nepal floods hit school
- New York Times What to Know About Flash Floods in Nepal and Tibet
- CNN Inside a hellish escape from Nepal's flooded hydro tunnels
- CNN How to help Nepal flood victims
- BBC News What we know about deadly Nepal-Tibet floods
- Al Jazeera Nepal-China floods: What’s the latest death toll, how many remain missing?
- South China Morning Post Why Nepal-China floods are more than a natural disaster
- BBC News China censors videos showing deadly flash floods on the Nepal-Tibet border
30 August 2026
- BBC News Rescue efforts enter fifth day on Nepal-Tibet border with more than 2,400 missing after flash flood
- AP Nepal-China flood survivors reach safe areas as families await news of nearly 3,000 missing
- CNN Death toll rises and thousands still missing after floods in Nepal and China
- CNN How to help Nepal flood victims
- BBC News Footage of Tibet floods isn't being shown in China - and we know little about victims there
- Fox News Death toll surges after Nepal-China border mudslides, thousands still missing
- BBC News Satellite images reveal scale of flood devastation in Nepal villages
- Fox News Nepal rescues hundreds from tunnel but 100 more still missing after landslide
- BBC News Why rescuers fear new barrier lake could cause another Nepal-Tibet flood
- South China Morning Post Why Nepal-China floods are more than a natural disaster
- BBC News China censors videos showing deadly flash floods on the Nepal-Tibet border
- AP Why a newly formed lake is sparking fears of more flooding along the Nepal-China border
- AP Satellite images show bedrock and glacier collapsed on Nepal-China border, then rivers flooded
- AP Nepal floods highlight growing glacier risks in warming Himalayas
29 August 2026
- Al Jazeera Why Nepal faces another flood threat from a new lake on China border
- BBC News Search for survivors of Nepal-Tibet flood enters fourth day with almost 2,000 still missing
- BBC News Footage of Tibet floods isn't being shown in China - and we know little about victims there
- CNN Visualizing the scale of devastation in Nepal and China
- South China Morning Post Hong Kong sets aside HK$50 million from relief fund for Nepal-Tibet flood victims
- South China Morning Post US families hold out hope for relatives lost in Nepal floods
- Fox News Nepal rescues hundreds from tunnel but 100 more still missing after landslide
- AP How to help after Nepal and Tibet's catastrophic floods
- BBC News Satellite images reveal scale of flood devastation in Nepal villages
- BBC News Why rescuers fear new barrier lake could cause another Nepal-Tibet flood
- BBC News What we know about deadly Nepal-Tibet floods
- Al Jazeera Why Nepal faces another flood threat from a new lake on China border
- BBC News BBC speaks with US group after 77 trekkers go missing in Nepal flood
- AP Satellite images show bedrock and glacier collapsed on Nepal-China border, then rivers flooded
- AP Why a newly formed lake is sparking fears of more flooding along the Nepal-China border
- AP Floods caused by a glacial collapse kill at least 160 people on Nepal-China border, hundreds missing
28 August 2026
- Al Jazeera More than 390 dead, 1,400 missing in Nepal and Tibet after Himalayan floods
- AP Catastrophic floods kill over 390 in Nepal and Tibet, with more than 1,400 missing
- New York Times Floods in Nepal and Tibet
- BBC News Death toll from Nepal-Tibet flood jumps to at least 469 as fears of second flood put rescuers 'on edge'
- AP People from more than 30 countries are missing after the flash floods in Nepal and China
- BBC News Tracing the deadly path of the Nepal-Tibet flash flood
- CNN What new satellite images show about the destructive flooding in Nepal
- New York Times See the Scale of Destruction in Nepal
- CNN What caused the Nepal flood wave? Here’s what we know
- BBC News 'Our parents were crossing the border an hour before the flood hit'
- BBC News Collapsed glacier likely caused devastating Nepal-Tibet floods, scientists say
- BBC News What caused the flooding in Nepal?
- Al Jazeera Nepal floods: What happened, what caused them and who is missing?
- Al Jazeera Satellite images show destruction from Nepal-Tibet floods
- Al Jazeera More than 390 dead, 1,400 missing in Nepal and Tibet after Himalayan floods
- Al Jazeera Nepal floods: What happened, what caused them and who is missing?
- BBC News What caused the Nepal-Tibet flash floods?
- AP Floods caused by a glacial collapse kill at least 160 people on Nepal-China border, hundreds missing
- AP Nepal floods highlight growing glacier risks in warming Himalayas
- BBC News What we know about deadly Nepal-Tibet floods
27 August 2026
- New York Times Floods in Nepal and Tibet
- BBC News Flash flood on Nepal-Tibet border kills more than 150, with hundreds of tourists missing
- Al Jazeera At least 160 killed, hundreds missing, as flash flood hits Nepal and Tibet
- New York Times Hundreds Missing as Wall of Water Sweeps Away Villages in Nepal and Tibet
- Fox News Deadly flooding at Nepal-China border leaves 95 dead, hundreds still missing
- BBC News What we know about deadly Nepal-Tibet floods
- Al Jazeera At least 160 killed, hundreds missing, as flash flood hits Nepal and Tibet
- BBC News Dozens of US and Canadian citizens missing after flash flooding in Nepal
- BBC News Aerial footage shows flash flood on Nepal-Tibet border
- AP At least 160 killed and hundreds missing after flash floods in Nepal and China