The death toll from the Himalayan landslide and subsequent flash flood in Nepal and an adjacent region in China continues to rise, and thousands are still missing.
The death toll following the massive flash flooding along the Nepal-Tibet border climbed on Wednesday to 1,114 in Nepal, officials said, as the country’s leader said his government would begin to shift its focus toward “rehabilitation.”
The Nepali government’s estimate for the missing remained at 3,916, the National Disaster Management Authority said in an update posted on social media at 9 a.m. local time.
The U.S. State Department said on Tuesday it was tracking around 75 Americans who were unaccounted for across the Nepal-Tibet cross-border region. Fourteen Americans had made their way to safety, the department said.
Earlier this week, I noted that it is premature and politically opportunistic to attribute this disaster to climate change since the immediate trigger remains under investigation and no formal attribution study has been completed. I reviewed the Himalaya’s long-running tectonic activity, steep terrain, monsoon dynamics, avalanches, and glacier-bed processes that offer more plausible explanations, while acknowledging a regional scientific body says it is too early to determine climate change’s role in this specific event.
Back in 2025, I reported that President Donald Trump rescinded $4 billion in outstanding U.S. pledges to a United Nations Green Climate Fund (an initiative supposedly designed to help struggling nations adapt to the rapidly changing world). With that move, Trump halted the transfer of wealth from American taxpayers to politically-connected bureaucrats and the climate cultist minions.
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