From Korala Pass on the Nepal-China border facing south. Annapurna and Nilgiri in the distance.As the road meanders uphill towards my village of…
Tourists are not looking to rough it out, they want a lifetime experience
In the coming decade, climate migration may finally make world leaders take action to slow global heating
Illustration: DIWAKAR CHHETRIOne week before the United Nation’s 25thConference of Parties (COP25) began in Madrid the World Meteorological…
Mount Cho Oyu (8,188m) and Nepal's longest glacier, The Ngozumba, seen from a mountain sightseeing flight on Yeti Airlines this week. Photo:…
HIGH AND DRY: A village in Mustang is one of the increasing number of settlements that have been abandoned because of water shortage caused by…
SHOULDERING THE BURDEN: The workload for women like Nanimaya Dhungana in Kavre (Above) may have increased because of the climate crisis. Photo:…
Photo: GOPEN RAIIn the strict legalese that the United Nations is accustomed to, the Madrid Climate Summit is called the 25th Conference of the…
Transport-related emissions from tourism are expected to increase to 5.3% of all man-made CO2 emissions in the next 10 years, according to a…
Farmers in the Tarai displaced by floods return to their homes, better protected for the next disaster
Illustration: SONNY ROSSThe climate crisis is making people sicker – worsening illnesses ranging from seasonal allergies to heart and lung…
A dengue patient being treated from inside a mosquito net at Teku hospital, Kathmandu. Photo: MONIKA DEUPALAAn unusually wet monsoon, increased…
Global heating has fanned the spread of vector-borne diseases like dengue across the Himalaya
ARCTIC HIMALAYA: NASA satellite images of Imja Galcier near Mt Everest taken in 1962, 1975, 1983, 1989, 1992, 2000, 2006 and (above) in…
CARBON NEUTRAL: Yeti Airlines has a policy to cut carbon use with more fuel-efficient ATR-72 aircraft, and battery-powered vans.Last month,…
ZERO CARBON TRIP: Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg, 16, sails into New York Harbour on 28 August. She will attend the UN Climate Action…
Photo: KUNDA DIXITThere is a tendency on the part of governments to blame everything on climate change. It lets them off the hook. In Nepal, a…
Photo: MONIKA DEUPALAThe Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) issued its Special Report on land last week in Geneva that has an…
Photo: PRAKASH SINGHLast month Kalpana BK delivered a healthy newborn baby on the way to Bayalpata Hospital in Achham, but her placenta did not…
Lhotse glacier, Chukung village to the far left. Photo: ALTON C BYERSMost of the recent talk within the UN Framework Convention on Climate…
Gabions above Chukung with the summit of Lhotse peeking through the clouds last month. All photos: ALTON C BYERSIn an example of local people…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q3Cvph_7Sjc&feature=youtu.beLike every monsoon, this year has also seen a spike in snakebite deaths across the…
Pic: DIANA BARRDavid Williams grew up in rural Australia among all kinds of creepy crawlies. He kept lizards and snakes as pets, even venomous…
Photo: KUNDA DIXIT“Can we tell the story so people get it?” US tv journalist Bill Moyers said at the launch of Covering Climate Now, a project…
