What Nepal’s dark floodwaters reveal about a hidden environmental loss

The Trishuli turned the colour of wet cement on August 26. A debris flood from the Tibet border had swept down the Bhote Koshi, turning the river thick and grey. Then it happened again. On September 27, a mudflow from the Ghatte Khola blocked the Marsyangdi near Chame, while a landslide briefly dammed the Kali