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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The Wire
Features
2 min read
Air pollution has devastating consequences for human health and the environment.
Features
4 min read
A research team is being set up to investigate rhino deaths at Chitwan National Park
Books
12 min read
Eight young Nepali writers imagine the possible futures of climate change in a new collection featuring poetry and short fiction.
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
7 min read
The government’s decision to resume the export of sand and gravel to reduce the trade deficit will lead to the wholesale exploitation of the environment, say conservationists and lawmakers
Features
6 min read
Wildfires and climate change exist in an intricate, mutually reinforcing feedback loop – climate change affects wildfires, and vice-versa.
Perspectives
6 min read
More and more Nepalis are being pushed out of their homes by extreme weather events, agricultural difficulties, and the pursuit of economic freedom from the elements.
Photo Essays
1 min read
Photographer Laxmi Prasad Ngakhusi's photos of Kathmandu Valley during the lockdown