The Nepal earthquake highlights the vulnerability of the entire Himalayan region as scientists warn more major tremors could follow in the next few decades, underlining the risks to infrastructure such as dams, roads and buildings.

China uses helicopters to rescue around 280 of its construction workers stranded at a dam destroyed by Nepal’s devastating earthquake, prompting fresh doubts that hydro projects should be built along seismic faultlines

Bad weather and slow government response hampers relief efforts in remote regions and lack of safe drinking water main concern in Kathmandu

Millions of tourists, mostly pilgrims, are heading for the Himalayan region that was devastated by the floods in 2013, but little has been done to reduce the region’s vulnerability to natural disasters

Rescuers were unable to reach villages near the epicentre of Saturday’s earthquake; still, the toll in Nepal and surrounding countries neared the 4,000 mark

Nepal’s devastating earthquake was the disaster experts knew was coming, but seismologists still have little useful understanding of how to predict the specific details of such ruptures

With its epicentre in Nepal, the quake was felt over much of northern India, Bhutan, China, Bangladesh and Pakistan. Most of the deaths occurred in Nepal, followed by the Indian state of Bihar

China’s environmental impact on Pakistan is likely to expand massively as President Xi inks huge deals on energy and infrastructure during a state visit

New study suggests pollution from South Asia’s cooking stoves and forest fires drifts over the Himalayas, contributing to glacier melt on the Tibetan plateau, but more research needed to confirm how much

Five years after Pakistan’s worst floods, thousands of displaced people continue to live makeshift lives in a slum on the outskirts of Karachi with the government doing little to help them