The history of Kathmandu’s past epidemics is the story of power, disease, and dependency
Catastrophic urban floods are rooted in the mismanagement of key natural resources such as land, water, and ecological hotspots
Increasing heat in the Indo-Gangetic plains could force people to move. Nepal needs to be prepared.
World leaders must also take a walk, and undo the global crisis set off by the invention of the steam engine
The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change was agreed in 1992 to deal with the increasing atmospheric concentration of carbon…
UP IN SMOKE: Failure of successive monsoons led to massive fires across Nepal, shown in a NASA satellite image from 12 March 2009, which covered…
Lhotse glacier, Chukung village to the far left. Photo: ALTON C BYERSMost of the recent talk within the UN Framework Convention on Climate…
Pic: MONIKA DEUPALAIn January 2018, Cape Town faced the possibility of executing a ‘Day Zero’ water plan: the city’s residents would have to…
Pic: BIKRAM RAIKathmandu is the centre of everything in Nepal: power, administration, public education, tourism, hospitals. Till the late 1970s,…
Tornado in Bara. Photo: RSSThis is the season for windstorms, and even though the whirlwind that hit the central Tarai on 31 March killing 28…
Photo: ALTON BYERSIn a normal winter, northern India and Nepal get 3-4 westerly disturbances. This year there were 12 frontal systems dumping…
Photo: GEORGE MALLORYUnprecedented in recorded history, there was a 100 degree C difference in temperature between the northern and southern…
DRYING UP: Toni Hagen's famous panorama of Pokhara taken in 1955, and last week from near the same spot at Pokhara airport (below). Snow cover…
In all the debate about Nepal’s increasing fuel imports from India and the country’s growing carbon footprint, what gets lost is that nearly 80%…
The conclusion of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Special Report on Global Warming of 1.5ºC could not have been more blunt:…
Hurricane Florence and typhoon Mangkhut, droughts and record-breaking temperatures this summer have highlighted the increasing threats of…
Bikram Rai Floods have been part of the life and livelihoods of the people living in the Indo-Gangetic plains for millennia, though written…
The politics of water during a political transition
A 'Marshall Plan' is not an appropriate paradigm for Nepal
How we, too, were nearly duped by Enron
The Americans are heading for elections in November as a deeply fractured nation. They are divided over the war in Iraq, over domestic health…
A paradigm shift in the world's bank is necessary, and possible.
How can the planning commission goad the government towards accountability?
Nepal is not responsible for the floods in Bihar and Uttar Pradesh
