natural-disasters

Nepal flood survivors still waiting for relief

A month-and-half after the disaster in September, charities and volunteers outpace government in relief work

Remembering the Seti disaster

12 years after the tragedy that killed 72 people, warnings that Pokhara is not prepared for another flood

The rise of high-rises

Nine years after the 2015 earthquake, Kathmandu has to ask: how safe are the new tall structures

Sonia Awale

Below zero at Ground Zero

Two months after the Jajarkot earthquake, survivors try to survive the cold

A flood of recrimination

This monsoon was no different than previous ones in Nepal being blamed for downstream inundation

Pinki Sris Rana

Lost and damaged

On the evening of 15 June 2021, Baburam Bhandari was sitting down for dinner with his family, when the police sent out...

Who will pay for climate disasters?

Adapting to extreme weather events alone will not save Nepal, it needs to push for loss and damage compensation

Post-COP26, Nepal’s real work now begins

After the flashflood of international media coverage of the COP26 climate summit in Glasgow, the climate emergency has now fallen off the...

The monsoon, and nature’s arithmetic

Rudyard Kipling's 1893 short story ‘The Bridge Builders’ surprised me. It is not about how noble British men brought ‘civilisation’ and ‘progress’...

The monsoon, and nature’s arithmetic

Rudyard Kipling's 1893 short story ‘The Bridge Builders’ surprised me. It is not about how noble British men brought ‘civilisation’ and ‘progress’...