Photo Essays
1 MIN READ
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.
Deewash Shrestha Deewash Shrestha is a student of Media Studies and a freelancer He can be reached via email: deewash.shrestha@yahoo.com
Explainers
5 min read
Forests capture and store atmospheric carbon dioxide in the plant biomass as well as in soils. Cutting down the Nijgadh forest will significantly increase the carbon emission into the atmosphere.
Features
3 min read
Lack of pigmentation makes the turtle appear golden in colour
Features
12 min read
For the ordinary residents of Nijgadh, the airport has already come—as the fear and uncertainty that now pervade the everyday, of being displaced and dispossessed
Features
7 min read
Community forestry has been a global success story for Nepal, none more so than those in the buffer zone of the country’s many national parks.
COVID19
Features
4 min read
Misinformation regarding the vaccine’s side-effects is spreading and without a concerted counter campaign, such false information will only proliferate.
Features
5 min read
Research paper led by a Nepali author explains the rare phenomenon of 'leucism' in two krait species
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
Perspectives
8 min read
Connecting and improving green open spaces can provide exponential benefits for the people and the environment, and allow a suffocating Kathmandu to breathe freely.