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Stop calling the Nepal flood a ‘Himalayan Tsunami’

Reality is more complicated than a catchphrase, preparedness starts with an accurate term

Arup Rajouria

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Earthquake rebuilding to flood recovery

Nepal could show the world how to build back sustainably from a major disaster

Sara Shneiderman and Amy Leigh Johnson

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How Nepal can get to climate justice at COP

Climate justice is the destination, the mechanisms are the road we must take

Truong Huyen-Chi

Opinion

Damber Nepali’s dream for Nepal

Fond memories by the daughter of the engineer who built Chilime, one of the hydro projects swept away by the flood

Dristy Shrestha

Comment

The integrity dividend: the value of knowing

On World News Day and the International Day for Universal Access to Information, we call on all actors in the information space to do better

David Walmsley, Mariya Gabriel and Liz Corbin

People Power

After the deluge

Hydropower development should not stop, it must evolve factoring in mountain hazards

Bikash Pandey

Opinion

Can Nepal’s Young Turks learn to govern?

Can these progressive young disruptors become nation builders?

Alok K Bohara

Comment

Rethinking risk and development in the Himalaya

A warning system only works if people and institutions can act on it, particularly with last-mile redundancy

Ajaya Dixit and Monirul Mirza

Opinion

We had no name for what came down the Trisuli

We have the science and the capacity. What we lack is the authority to name.

Tri Ratna Bajracharya and Truong Huyen-Chi

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At Dag Hammarskjöld’s grave, 65 years later

The new UN Secretary-General must also be independent and engage in diplomacy to prevent wars

Jordan Ryan

Opinion

Development, debt, and disaster

Who pays to rebuild after the Bhote Kosi-Trisuli flood?

Sebastian DiPirro

Stone and Song

The Mary Slusser expose

How an Americans scholar's archives became both a record of theft and a roadmap for return

Alisha Sijapati

Opinion

Even gods were not spared by the flood

The very geography of the Trisuli Valley that made the region sacred is what made it vulnerable

Rajan Khatiwoda

Drive Line

Price war and flood cloud Nepal EV market

Battery-powered cars are cheaper, but journeys are more uncertain and expensive

Arnav Upadhyay

Opinion

How on earth to finance Nepal’s disaster?

The question is not whether there will be more climate impacts. It is how we will finance resilience, pay for damage.

Rastraraj Bhandari

Opinion

In Nepal, flood followed fire

The past year has felt like a decade, as the country lurched from one crisis to the next

Sujeev Shakya

Stone and Song

Preserving the diversity of intangible heritage

Nepal’s new heritage Bill needs an inclusive board, not just statutory words

Alisha Sijapati

Opinion

The digital deluge

Nepal's flood disaster unleashes another flood on social media platforms

Milan Shrestha

Suburban Tales

Trisuli on my mind

For me, Trisuli was a summation of the memories of my family members who had lived there

Pratibha Tuladhar

Comment

What is lost and damaged in Nepal

The government has taken a firm stance on global climate justice and the same reckoning is owed at home

Astha Guragain

Opinion

We are all downstream now

The water cycle is the planet's great equaliser. We have forgetten this. The flood is a brutal reminder.

Zakir Kibria

Opinion

The danger of living downstream from the Tibetan Plateau

The Bhote Kosi crosses the China border before it enters Nepal. Our preparedness should too.

Sushim Thapaliya

Opinion

Nepal must prepare for weather extremes

The Rasuwa flood on Wednesday proves there are many things we have to get right in weather forecasting

Ngamindra Dahal

Opinion

Nepal’s rice fields can also earn carbon credits

Introducing alternate wet and dry cropping reduces methane emission, saves water and generates revenue

Urja Shrestha

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