ProvisionalNepal26 August 2026
The 2026 Nepal-Tibet border flash flood
A glacier collapse triggered a flash flood on the Lhende River, killing dozens and leaving hundreds missing on the Nepal-Tibet border.
- River flood event
The timeline
The same case studies as the map, on a time axis instead of a place one. Geography is normally read by where something happened, so this is the second view rather than the first: it is here for when the question is when.
35 case studies, 2010 to 2026. 21 carry no date and sit outside the run of it
When the case studies are
Most recent case studies
- ProvisionalUnited Kingdom26 August 2026
UK plug-in balcony solar panels
Plug-in balcony solar panels went on sale in the UK for the first time, letting flat dwellers generate their own electricity.
- Energy management
- VerifiedMyanmar28 March 2025
The 2025 Sagaing earthquake, Myanmar
A magnitude 7.7 strike-slip earthquake on the Sagaing Fault devastated central Myanmar during a civil war.
- Named earthquake
- Tectonic hazard, LIC
- VerifiedUnited Kingdom24 January 2025
Storm Eowyn, UK and Ireland, 2025
An explosively deepening Atlantic storm broke Ireland's wind record and left more than a million without power across Ireland and Scotland.
- UK extreme weather
- VerifiedUnited States7 January 2025
The Los Angeles wildfires, January 2025
Wind driven fires destroyed whole neighbourhoods of Los Angeles after months without rain, killing at least 27 people.
- Named wildfire
- Named drought
- VerifiedMayotte14 December 2024
Cyclone Chido, Mayotte, 2024
The strongest cyclone to hit Mayotte in 90 years flattened informal settlements across France's poorest territory.
- Tropical storm
- Tropical storm, LIC
- Informal settlement
- VerifiedSpain29 October 2024
The Valencia floods, Spain, 2024
A stalled cut-off low dropped a year's rain in hours inland of Valencia, and the floods killed 229 people in the region.
- River flood event
- VerifiedUnited States26 September 2024
Hurricane Helene, USA, 2024
A Category 4 Florida landfall became an inland flood disaster in the Appalachians, killing at least 250 people.
- Tropical storm, HIC
- Tropical storm
- River flood event
- VerifiedNigeriaLibrary
Nigeria: a newly emerging economy
Africa's most populous country is shifting from oil dependence towards services, while TNCs, aid and oil pollution shape its development.
- LIC or NEE country
- Rapid population growth
- Transnational corporation
- VerifiedPeruLibrary
The Chambamontera micro-hydro scheme, Peru
A remote Andean village that built its own small hydroelectric scheme with Practical Action, transforming homes, school and businesses.
- Energy management
- VerifiedUnited KingdomLibrary
Nissan in Sunderland
A Japanese TNC whose Sunderland plant, the biggest car factory in the UK, shows the benefits and risks of foreign investment.
- Transnational corporation
- UK economic change
- VerifiedUnited KingdomLibrary
Banbury flood management scheme
An £18.5 million storage reservoir beside the M40, opened in 2012, holds back the River Cherwell to keep Banbury dry.
- Flood management
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