Rev your car (and charge it, too)
Hybrids re-emerge as the ideal compromise between EV and petrol
global-warming
Lives on the line in the Himalaya
The Thame flood showed climate risk is a given, and Nepal has no choice but to be prepared
Climate breakdown linked to Thame flood
Suspected glacial collapse damages half of the settlement of Thame in the Everest region
Election climate in Nepal
The time has come for Nepal’s politicians to regard the climate crisis not as a problem, but an opportunity
Himalayans on the frontlines
The double-barrel crisis of climate and Covid has hit Nepal’s Himalayan communities hard with its impact on livelihoods and the natural environment.I myself have...
Women and water
The climate crisis is a water crisis – either too much of it, or too little. Droughts have dried up springs, and...
Back to Glasgow, where it all began
World leaders must also take a walk, and undo the global crisis set off by the invention of the steam engine
Nepal doubles its carbon footprint
Nepal’s per capita greenhouse gas emission may be negligible compared to industrialised countries, but it has doubled in the last seven years. This...
Decarbonisation needs to begin today
The present concentration of carbon dioxide in earth’s atmosphere is the highest in 2 million years. The average atmospheric temperature in the decade 2011-2020 is...
Nepal needs weather stations in the Himalaya
This year’s monsoon season showed that precipitation is moving higher up the mountains to the trans-Himalayan valleys, creating a whole new dimension of flood...
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