Suspected glacial collapse damages half of the settlement of Thame in the Everest region
Kathmandu shrouded in smoke and smog from stubble and industrial pollution from northern India, as well as the valley's own vehicular emissions…
Photos: RSSStill reeling from a disastrous monsoon season, Nepal has been hit with unseasonal downpours that have dumped more rain on rice crops…
The receding Khumbu Glacier below Mt Everest, and Cholatse Lake in Nepal. Photo: ALTON C BYERSHuman activities are damaging the planet at an…
Paddy and maize fields in Kavre. A heavier than usual monsoon this year brought destructive floods, but was a boon to farmers. Photo: AMIT…
Aerial photograph of Kathmandu Valley, looking west over the floodplain in 1967. Photo: EARL WEBB/DOUG HALL PEACE CORPS COLLECTIONS Kathmandu…
Exploring Nepal’s largest river during a destructive monsoon
Extreme rainfall over the past three days on Himalayan foothills that were ravaged by wildfires just four months ago have led to dangerously…
Photo: MANISH PAUDEL/NEPALI TIMES ARCHIVEThe 2020 southwest monsoon was forecast to be 'normal' in Nepal, but it turned out to be more intense…
Floods over the weekend in Damauli, Tanahu inundates a settlement. Photo: RSSThis year’s monsoon rains started early, and have been heavy. But…
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: UN-Habitat, the Center for Integrated Urban Development, and Lalitpur Metropolitan CityThe 2019 monsoon was an erratic one. Sadly,…
Pic: ANEK PANDEYWhen Nepal signed the Sugauli Treaty with British India in 1816, parts of the demarcated border followed the courses of rivers.…
Pic: SEWA BHATTARAIThe memory of the catastrophic flood of 2017 is still fresh in the minds of the people of Rautahat district. But even though…
Pic: BIKRAM RAIAt Saraswati Primary School in Bhalohiya village in the central Tarai last week, children in Class 5 sweat in the humid heat,…
Pic: BIKRAM RAIWith the advent of the monsoon, we will be flooded with stories of floods, landslides and other water-induced ‘natural disasters’…
