flooding

The Kosi returns to its old ways

Seasonal floods are a given in Nepal, and some are more destructive than others. Incessant rain from 2 August last week in...

Kathmandu's ‘flash floods’ are 4 decades in the making

Kathmandu Valley’s geography gives it several strategic advantages. It is too high for malaria, but too low for much snow and ice....

Tom Robertson

Nepal’s deadliest monsoon in recent times

This year’s monsoon season has been disastrous for Nepal, in the past two months 301 people have been killed in landslides all...

Preparing for floods during a lockdown

Even as Nepal braces for the full socio-economic impact of the COVID-19 lockdown, the monsoon brings the risk of yet another disaster...

Borderline disorder

When Nepal signed the Sugauli Treaty with British India in 1816, parts of the demarcated border  followed the courses of rivers. Since...

Nepal must keep water on its land

Our ancestors knew how to store monsoon runoff for year-round use, we must learn from them

Anil Chitrakar

From playing victim to proactive leadership on climate

Gebru Jember Endalew has been involved in UN negotiations on climate change since 2008 as a core member of the Ethiopian negotiating...

Turning on the heat

Unprecedented in recorded history, there was a 100 degree C difference in temperature between the northern and southern hemispheres last week. While...

Climate damage

Climate change is global, it does not respect national boundaries. Neither should its solution. The only way we can save the biosphere...