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.
Deewash Shrestha Deewash Shrestha is a student of Media Studies and a freelancer He can be reached via email: deewash.shrestha@yahoo.com
COVID19
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Photo Essays
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Features
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As the world heads towards the annual climate conference, Nepal needs to push for more climate financing and support to mitigate outcomes and adapt to climate change.
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.
Longreads
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Chitwan National Park has earned international praise for its conservation successes, but it has also evicted indigeneous communities and upended many local livelihoods.
Perspectives
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There are strong links between economic stressors caused by climate change and child marriage around the world. A spattering of evidence suggests this is a serious problem in parts of Nepal as well.
News
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Villages routinely get swept away in Nepal’s most landslide-prone district because locals, fed up with government apathy, are building settlements in risky locations
Features
Longreads
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As the elites profit from natural resources, the poor and marginalized pay the price of conservation with evictions, fines, and jail sentences