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  "id": 3981098,
  "title": "Nepal's devastating floods reveal the danger of 'cascading hazards' in Himalayas",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/28/nepals-devastating-floods-reveal-the-danger-of-cascading-hazards-in",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-08-28T14:40:04.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Phys.org",
    "slug": "phys-org",
    "url": "https://phys.org/news/2026-08-nepal-devastating-reveal-danger-cascading.html"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "The devastating floods that have swept through the Nepal–Tibet border region are first and foremost a human tragedy. Hundreds of people have died or remain missing. But as scientists begin to reconstruct what happened, the event also exposes something fundamental about the way we understand natural hazards in high mountain regions. Mountains and rivers do not reset after an extreme event.",
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      {
        "outlet": "The Indian Express",
        "title": "They went to Mount Kailash. Then calls stopped: Indian-Americans missing after Nepal floods",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/28/they-went-to-mount-kailash-then-calls-stopped-indian-americans",
        "published": "2026-08-28T13:06:36.000Z"
      },
      {
        "outlet": "Channel News Asia",
        "title": "Nepal floods trauma 'enormous': Red Cross",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/28/nepal-floods-trauma-enormous-red-cross",
        "published": "2026-08-28T13:38:00.000Z"
      },
      {
        "outlet": "The Guardian",
        "title": "Families of 33 missing Britons rush to Nepal as fears grow of more floods",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/28/families-of-33-missing-britons-rush-to-nepal-as-fears-grow-of-more",
        "published": "2026-08-28T13:39:36.000Z"
      },
      {
        "outlet": "New Straits Times",
        "title": "Nepal floods trauma 'enormous': Red Cross",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/28/nepal-floods-trauma-enormous-red-cross",
        "published": "2026-08-28T15:23:25.000Z"
      },
      {
        "outlet": "The Korea Times",
        "title": "UN warns 17,000 children need urgent aid after Nepal floods",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/28/un-warns-17-000-children-need-urgent-aid-after-nepal-floods",
        "published": "2026-08-28T16:32:03.000Z"
      }
    ]
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}