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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Features
6 min read
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.
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.
Photo Essays
1 min read
Photographer Laxmi Prasad Ngakhusi's photos of Kathmandu Valley during the lockdown
Perspectives
10 min read
We cannot protect ourselves if we don't protect others. And the time to act is now.
Features
11 min read
A disproportionate number of local representatives who own construction companies are facilitating the haphazard carving of roads across the fragile hills.
Longreads
Features
34 min read
Chitwan National Park has earned international praise for its conservation successes, but it has also evicted indigeneous communities and upended many local livelihoods.
Features
6 min read
Nepal has had a record number of landslide-related deaths this year
Perspectives
7 min read
The communities living near Nepal’s protected areas live in constant fear of wild animals and the security forces