garbage

No smoke without fire in Kathmandu

Perhaps the most overlooked source of the tiny particulate matter that makes Kathmandu’s air so hazardous is the open burning of household...

Breathing can kill you

It is that time of the year again when smog makes Kathmandu’s air hazardous to health. Hospitals are swamped not with Covid, but COPD...

Sonia Awale

Happy New Air

On Thursday morning, Nepali Times photographer Amit Machamasi was greeted with a shocking sight when he drove up to Nagarkot to take...

Sonia Awale

Garbage in, garbage out

The good people of Okharpauwa in Nuwakot finally signed a ceasefire agreement with the litterbugs of Kathmandu last week to not refuse...

The Ass

A load of rubbish

Nepal’s capital stank for more than a fortnight before Kathmandu Metropolitan City (KMC) decided to resume garbage collection this week with the...

Nepali ultra-marathoner’s anti-litter drive

One of the best and nearest hiking trails from Kathmandu is the Champadevi-Chandragiri walk – it offers a splendid view of the Himalaya as...

Too many mules on the Everest trail

The Sherpas reportedly have a saying that “there’s only one Everest,” meaning that because Everest is the highest mountain in the world...

Everest fights back

(against garbage and bad press)

Everest Postmortem

Ever since the Great Trigonometrical Survey of India determined that the world’s tallest mountain was Peak XV located on the border between...

Upscaling Upcycling

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=byB2UFWlCs4&feature=youtu.beWhen actress, fashion designer and, more recently, the director of her debut film #Horror, Tara Subkoff, popularised the term ‘upcycling’, she may...