This study establishes a baseline inventory of the number, types, and approximate distribution of DG sets in use in the Kathmandu Valley of Nepal and estimates air pollution emissions, including black
In a new study, New Delhi-based think tank Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) on Monday lifted the lid on the dark underbelly of a large-scale global trade of old and used vehicles from high income
A panel formed to investigate alleged misappropriation of revenue by the Metropolitan Traffic Police Division and its 29 units submitted its report to the Directorate of Traffic Police today. The 24-page
A team formed to manage transportation service in Pokhara has advised bringing pollution-free vehicles to use in order to mitigate the havoc caused by vehicular emission in the city, of late. The team
Lalitpur Sub-Metropolitan City has allowed Nepal Adarsh Nirman Company to operate an asphalt plant at Bagdole without carrying environmental impact assessment. Around 200 locals from the area about six
Forty-seven-year old Chuda Mani Dangal, a local grocery store owner at Koteshwor, recently recovered from persistent coughing and headache that compelled him to stay home for nearly two weeks. This
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HETAUDA: Hetauda Cement Industry, which has been spewing a lot of dust after its machine to control harmful emissions went defunct, has alarmed locals. Locals say a white powdery dust is blanketing
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The Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development signed a NOK 150 million ($25 million) agreement to support ICIMOD in resilient and sustainable
Minister for Science, Technology and Environment Uma Kant Jha has stressed on the need to provide clean cookstoves to every household in the country so that traditional stoves could be replaced as soon
Not even 25 per cent of the brick kilns in the Kathmandu Valley are environment-friendly, pointed out the participants in a programme in the capital on Thursday. According to RSS, the programme participants
While the government is organising various programmes to mark the renewable energy week, local authorities in Dolakha have declared a plan to make the district free of indoor smoke by 2016. Addressing
More than half of the people in the world rely on coal, wood, crop wastes or dung for their energy needs, according to the World Health Organization. Three billion people in developing nations depend on
Seventy-five per cent of the houses in the country still use the traditional fuels like firewood and sun-baked cow dung for cooking food. The traditional bio-fuels are also used at hotels, schools, army
Diesel generator sets that are increasingly being used for the daily power needs in households and offices have been found emitting more harmful gases than vehicles in the Kathmandu valley, according to
The Supreme Court (SC) on Tuesday ordered the government to implement the Euro III vehicle emission standard. The new emission standard was not being implemented fully, with automobile dealers demanding
An Improved Stove with Carbon Emission Programme is being launched to raise the livelihood of the communities of nine districts in the Far- Western Development Region through improved stoves. The five-year
The government’s attempt to resume air quality monitoring stations has suffered a setback as four of the total seven existing stations broke down barely two months after being repaired. The stations
