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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
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Research shows that disabled people are unequally affected during health emergencies, and this phenomenon is particularly acute in low and middle income countries.
Longreads
Features
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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.
Explainers
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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.
COVID19
Perspectives
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While the state of mental health of Nepalis is largely unknown, estimates and anecdotal evidence suggest that the pandemic and climate crises have exacerbated problems.
COVID19
News
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A daily summary of all Covid19 related developments that matter
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
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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
Photo Essays
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Photographer Laxmi Prasad Ngakhusi's photos of Kathmandu Valley during the lockdown