Nepal's valley settlements are a policy choice for massacre
The geography of the Himalayas is not a landscape; it is a funnel.
By Aoife Gallagher ·
glacier collapse — Lorien Times
Nuwakot's survivor proves the survival window is a lie
There is a kind of arithmetic used by people in air-conditioned offices—people who have never felt the grit of a seed drill or the panic of a creek jumping its banks—that tells…
By Ruth Behrens ·
Nepal-Tibet border forces show planning fails against megathrust power
The human tendency is to treat overwhelming disaster—the kind that doesn't merely hit but fundamentally erases—as an anomaly, a regrettable accident of nature.
By Adele Rutherford ·
The Nepal-Tibet flash flood shows failure of governance, not nature
The mountains don't care about quarterly earnings reports or national borders. They simply exist, massive and indifferent, until they decide to rip themselves apart.
By Josie Calloway ·
Langtang Lirung: Failure of infrastructure, not just nature
The headlines are already doing the work of sanitizing this disaster: "Glacier Collapse." It sounds clean, almost academic, like a footnote on a geological survey map.
By Imani Sutton ·