News
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More than 70 lives have already been lost to this past week’s rains with the toll only expected to rise.
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Perspectives
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Connecting and improving green open spaces can provide exponential benefits for the people and the environment, and allow a suffocating Kathmandu to breathe freely.
Photo Essays
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For the people living besides the Bagmati in Teku, every year the monsoon brings much devastation. And as local authorities do little to help, residents have no one to turn to but themselves.
Features
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The ban on this year’s harvest due to Covid-19 threatens livelihoods and risks furthering the nation’s food insecurity
COVID19
News
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A daily summary of Covid19-related developments that matter
Features
Longreads
12 min read
As the elites profit from natural resources, the poor and marginalized pay the price of conservation with evictions, fines, and jail sentences
Features
8 min read
For decades, studies have shown that a warming climate is pushing the treeline to shift upwards across the world — including in the Everest region. But what exactly does this phenomenon mean?
News
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More than 70 lives have already been lost to this past week’s rains with the toll only expected to rise.
Features
5 min read
Research paper led by a Nepali author explains the rare phenomenon of 'leucism' in two krait species