What the new world order post-Venezuela means for small countries with big neighbours like Nepal
New photobook is a must-have guide for visitors to Lalitpur, and also for residents
The Kulekhani Dam opened in 1982, and is still the only large reservoir project in Nepal. Photos: NT ARCHIVEA rapidly warming atmosphere is…
Photo: SONAM CHOEKYI LAMAThe climate crisis is a water crisis – either too much of it, or too little. Droughts have dried up springs, and when…
Aerial photograph of Kathmandu Valley, looking west over the floodplain in 1967. Photo: EARL WEBB/DOUG HALL PEACE CORPS COLLECTIONS Kathmandu…
Photo: KUNDA DIXITClimate change, pollution, and lack of infrastructure restrict water access in Nepal. Madhav Belbase, retired Secretary of the…
Exploring Nepal’s largest river during a destructive monsoon
Nepal has had one emergency heaped on top of another for more than a year now. The Covid-19 emergency, wildfires, and now floods.Political flux…
All photos: AMIT MACHAMASIThrough the centuries, Kathmandu Valley residents have set aside a day just before the monsoon when the groundwater…
All photos: KARUN DEWANWhen NASA explores other planets, the test of whether there is life, is to detect the presence of water. Here on Earth,…
The south face of Mt Gauri Shankar (7,134m) on the border between Nepal and China is bare rock, and shows how dramatically the snowline has…
[caption id="attachment54080" align="alignnone" width="900"] Panoramic view of Manang Village and the Gangapurna and Annapurna III Glaciers that…
Nepal Police rescue villagers in Kailali district parts of which were flooded following a heavy rainfall. All photos: RSSThose drawing attention…
Eco Soap Bank Nepal's Nicky Lama teaching a student about hand hygiene. Photo: ECO SOAP BANK NEPALMany Nepalis woke up on Wednesday to an…
Something is not working if officials elected to protect the public only protect those who fund them
Photo : GOPEN RAI/NT ARCHIVEThe Sagarmatha National Sambaad held this week was a dress rehearsal for a bigger international event slated for…
Photo: UN-Habitat, the Center for Integrated Urban Development, and Lalitpur Metropolitan CityThe 2019 monsoon was an erratic one. Sadly,…
The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change was agreed in 1992 to deal with the increasing atmospheric concentration of carbon…
All Photos: EELUM DIXITManju Chaudhary sinks her hand into a little pond and brings up a tiny, conch-shaped shell. Inside it is an even tinier…
Photo: PRAKASH SINGHLast month Kalpana BK delivered a healthy newborn baby on the way to Bayalpata Hospital in Achham, but her placenta did not…
Lhotse glacier, Chukung village to the far left. Photo: ALTON C BYERSMost of the recent talk within the UN Framework Convention on Climate…
https://youtu.be/aDKMAc6MxuYKing Pratap Malla built Nhu Pukhoo, the ‘new pond’ on the northern outskirts of Kathmandu in the 17thcentury CE to…
SILO-ED THINKING: The Melamchi Project is given by authors as an example of non-nexus thinking. By planning it only as a drinking water project,…
Our ancestors knew how to store monsoon runoff for year-round use, we must learn from them
