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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Sisdole residents continue to suffer health and environmental problems from the thousand tonnes of garbage that are being dumped in their locale every day.
Features
5 min read
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?
Perspectives
4 min read
Climate change adaptation is not just a matter of flood-tolerant seeds and solar water pumps; it is about crushing age-old structural injustices.
Perspectives
10 min read
Everest has emerged as a marker of the evolution of Nepal-China ties from conflict to collaboration.
Features
13 min read
The ban on this year’s harvest due to Covid-19 threatens livelihoods and risks furthering the nation’s food insecurity
Photo Essays
1 min read
Photographer Laxmi Prasad Ngakhusi's photos of Kathmandu Valley during the lockdown
Features
5 min read
Research paper led by a Nepali author explains the rare phenomenon of 'leucism' in two krait species
COVID19
News
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A daily summary of Covid19 related developments that matter