More pre-monsoon forest fires in Nepal
Government inaction, legal ambiguity, climate change and disregard for traditional knowledge increase wildfire risk
Government inaction, legal ambiguity, climate change and disregard for traditional knowledge increase wildfire risk
March 2022 was one of the hottest recorded in the Subcontinent. April also saw sweltering conditions in Nepal’s Tarai plains.This is the...
Nepal’s trans-Himalayan district of Manang is located in the rain-shadow, and is a high altitude desert. Its average annual rainfall is barely...
As if the drought, wildfire and flood disasters this year were not bad enough, scientists have warned that unless the world reduces emissions of greenhouse gases drastically, these...
Scientists are loath to link individual weather events with climate change. But there is a growing consensus among climate researchers that warmer...
After being ravaged by unprecedented nationwide wildfires and deadly monsoon floods this year, Nepal appears to be too busy dealing with disasters made worse by climate...
Nepal sits upon a pyramid of problems: poverty, inequality, exclusion, domestic violence, social injustice, lack of food ... the list is long.On top...
Nepal continues to face a series of forest fire incidents
Nepalis continue to endure the worst air quality in recent years as wildfires ravage the forests at unprecedented rates. The country has...
A series of photographs of Kathmandu Valley taken by Abhushan Gautam on 10 May 2020, and on 6 April 2021 from the...