Deadly Flooding in Nepal Highlights Asia’s Climate Vulnerability

千人遇难多座电站被毁!亚洲水塔融化正在带来致命危机。

Big Take Asia

2026-09-03

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Hundreds of hydropower workers remain missing in Nepal after a glacial collapse caused catastrophic flooding. The disaster laid bare the rising climate risks across Asia and the danger of building in an increasingly volatile environment. On today’s Big Take Asia podcast, guest host Rebecca Choong Wilkins sits down with Bloomberg’s Clara Ferreira Marques and Bloomberg Opinion’s David Fickling to talk about the human and economic toll of the disaster, why the catastrophe is a warning for the rest of the world and how Nepal’s big bet on clean energy may now be at risk. We have a special Bloomberg subscription offer for podcast listeners at Bloomberg.com/podcastoffer. Hosted by Rebecca Choong Wilkins; Produced by Yang Yang; Reported by Clara Ferreira Marques, David Fickling; Edited by Paddy Hirsch, Crispina Robert and Tracey Samuelson. Fact-checking by Naomi Ng; Engineering by Alex Sugiura Senior Producer: Naomi Shavin; Deputy Executive Producer: Julia Weaver; Executive Producer: Nicole Beemsterboer. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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  • Bloomberg Audio Studios.

  • Podcasts, radio, news.

  • For much of the past week,

  • the world has watched in shock

  • as the aftermath of devastating floods in Nepal comes into focus.

  • More than a thousand people were killed

  • and thousands more are still missing

  • after glacial collapse swept ice, mud, rock and water

  • through valley communities along the country's border with China.

  • For all of us covering it, the thing that really stood out were the images.

  • The images here we had of the border,

  • the checkpoint with China, of that sort of flood of water,

  • and the sheer destructive power of that wave,

  • I think really took people aback.

  • Bloomberg's Clara Ferreira Marques has been covering the disaster.

  • We are still in the early stages of recovery.

  • There is still a hunt for workers,

  • hundreds of workers on various hydropower projects that have disappeared.

  • Close to 12,000 people have been rescued,

  • and search teams in Nepal are still pulling out survivors.