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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How Khim Lal Gautam risked life and limb to ensure Nepal would be able to calculate Mt Everest’s official new height
Perspectives
11 min read
The most significant international climate event since the Paris Accord is two days away. For Nepal, its citizens’ lives and its long-term development trajectory are at stake.
Perspectives
Opinions
5 min read
With Occupy Tudikhel Nepal gets an opportunity to question larger forces that are shaping it physically, and politically.
Features
19 min read
Traditional flush toilets aren’t an option in many parts of the world, but neither is leaving people with unsafe and unhygenic choices. Now, one company is piloting a new loo that's waterless, off-grid and able to charge your phone. Lina Zeldovich travels to Madagascar to witness the start of a lavatorial revolution.
Features
4 min read
Where the federal government has failed, local governments have stepped in
Features
3 min read
Nepal’s migrant laborers are particularly vulnerable to the Covid19 outbreak in the absence of basic healthcare or job security.
Features
8 min read
The risk is most acute for residents of the Khumbu region, which hosts a majority of the country’s glaciers and has settlement areas close to retreating glaciers.
Features
5 min read
Kathmandu air pollution will have long-term impacts not just on public health but also on individual cognition and the national economy.