Preparing for Kathmandu’s heat waves
The day my father brought home a shiny new motorcycle for the first time in Kathmandu, we were thrilled.After smashing a coconut...
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Non-climate cause of Nanda Devi flood
More than a month after the catastrophic flashflood in Chamoli district of the Indian Himalaya, scientists say that the cause was failure...
Who is in charge in Nepal?
The confusion and chaos that followed the sudden cancellation of repatriation flights on 16 August was just the latest proof that the...
Ke garne attitude kills people
Epidemics are nothing new in Nepal. In fact, the country’s history is littered with references to frequent outbreaks of cholera, influenza, measles...
Development = Destruction
Naya Patrika, 17 JulyNationwide, there are problems with landslides and floods. People have been killed, made homeless, crops destroyed, fisheries and farms...
Only half prepared for floods in Nepal
The memory of the catastrophic flood of 2017 is still fresh in the minds of the people of Rautahat district. But even...
Nepal Tarai learns from past floods
At Saraswati Primary School in Bhalohiya village in the central Tarai last week, children in Class 5 sweat in the humid heat,...
Flood of recrimination in the Nepal Tarai
With the advent of the monsoon, we will be flooded with stories of floods, landslides and other water-induced ‘natural disasters’ as they...
Life in the time of tornadoes
This is the season for windstorms, and even though the whirlwind that hit the central Tarai on 31 March killing 28 people...
Tall Order
Suresh Shakya (pictured above) was sitting down for lunch with his family in his house in Itum Bahal four years ago when...
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