Yearly anxiety: A man standing in a landslide-affected village following heavy rains in Lalitpur district on the outskirts of Kathmandu on Oct 1, 2024. Every year during monsoon, floods and landslides wreak havoc across South Asia, killing hundreds of people. — AFP
Every morning, Nepali primary school teacher Bina Tamang steps outside her home and checks the rain gauge, part of an early warning system in one of the world’s most landslide-prone regions.
Tamang contributes to an AI-powered early warning system that uses rainfall and ground movement data, local observations and satellite imagery to predict landslides up to weeks in advance, according to its developers at the University of Melbourne.
