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
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Kathmandu air pollution will have long-term impacts not just on public health but also on individual cognition and the national economy.
Features
5 min read
As millions stay safely home, frontliners like Lapcha rush through the Valley’s empty streets, risking their own lives to save those infected with Covid-19.
Features
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A long-term, green solution to Kathmandu’s waste problem could be to adopt waste-to-energy technologies on a large, commercial scale. But can it be done?
Features
6 min read
Research shows that disabled people are unequally affected during health emergencies, and this phenomenon is particularly acute in low and middle income countries.
Perspectives
7 min read
While there is much to appreciate in Gates’ new book on climatechange, he fails to unpack the political complexities of the climate crisis
Features
6 min read
Two months ago, unprecedented floods brought about much destruction to Melamchi but residents have largely been left to fend for themselves.
Features
5 min read
Lucrative but illegal businesses are sprinkled all over the country
