The World Meteorological Organization’s State of the Climate in Asia 2024 report warns that the region is warming nearly twice as fast as the global average, driving more extreme weather and posing serious threats to lives, ecosystems, and economies. In 2024, Asia experienced its warmest or second warmest year on …
This working paper assesses the groundwater-WASH (Water, Sanitation and Hygiene) nexus based on an analysis of domestic water uses in three groundwater dependent Asian Cities: Hanoi (Viet Nam), Kathmandu (Nepal), and Khulna (Bangladesh). The paper analyses the pull (benefits) and push (constraints) factors for use of groundwater by residents in …
Nepal is endowed with good renewable energy potential. The major sources of renewable energy are mini and micro hydropower, solar energy, various forms of biomass energy, biogas and wind energy etc. Despite huge renewable energy potential, still around 85% of the total final energy consumption in Nepal is met by …
Heat wave sweeping across the district since last week has adversely affected general lives in Bardiya. With the temperature rising to up to 43 degree Celsius, the heat wave continues to get worse. Rickshaw-pullers, laborers, students, and local service seekers are the worst hit due to such intolerable heat. Locals …
DOTI: A fire destroyed around 1,744 hectares of forest, including community and leasehold, in Doti district on Thursday. According to Forest Officer of the Doti District Forest Office Badri Kumar Karki, the forest fire broke out in 85 community forests, two leasehold forests and other government-owned forests causing huge damages …
KATHMANDU, April 27 (Xinhua) -- Despite massive damages caused to individual houses by last year's earthquake in Nepal, there has not been significant rise in insurance coverage of such properties as expected, Nepalese insurers say. The Post Disaster Needs Assessment (PDNA) report said that the quake caused damages of properties …
Wildfires in different community and national forests including Shuklaphant Wildlife Reserve Area have destroyed over 10,000 hectares of forests. The District Forest Office informed that the fires have destroyed over 50 community forests and national forests as well. Assistant Forestry officer at the Office Bishweshwar Joshi stated that the wildfire …
When a magnitude 7.8 earthquake struck Nepal a year ago, 25-year-old Yama Tamang lost his farm, where he used to grow maize. To support his wife and their three children, he now makes bamboo baskets in the Daamgade temporary camp in Dhading district, 90 km (56 miles) from the capital, …
This study assesses and compares the benefits of electricity service to households and small enterprises from microgrids, solar home systems (SHS), and the national grid in select rural communities in India and Nepal. Electricity access, in general, leads to reduced kerosene use, more time spent by women on income-generation, and …
A new World Health Organisation (WHO) report says an estimated 12.6 million people are dying each year globally from ‘unhealthy environment’ alone. This is one in every four casualties across the globe. Of these, two thirds, or 8.2 million, deaths are from non-communicable diseases (NCDs) such as strokes, heart attacks, …
The Chitwan National Park has begun a week-long awareness campaign for the conservation of tigers and one horned rhinos, among other wild animals, from today. The CNP launched the campaign to celebrate zero poaching year. The national park had marked zero poaching last year as well. Chief Conservation Officer at …
Recurrent wildfires have destroyed more than 500 hectares of forest area in Gulmi district in the last one month. The wildfires engulfed more than 500 hectares of forest area in various community and national forests, according to District Forest Office, Gulmi. Bushfires are occurring on a daily basis in majority …
Daraune Pokhari in Dapcha, Kashikhanda of Kavre district was so deep that very few people dared to venture near the pond. They would not even let their cattle wander near the pond. Today, even children feel no fear about the pond, thanks to the diminishing water level. Water, which used …
KATHMANDU: A light earthquake hit Bajhang district at 9:40 am on Monday. According to the National Seismological Centre (NSC), Lainchaur, it recorded a tremor of local magnitude 4.3 this morning. The NSC said that it was a fresh tremor, not an aftershock of the April 25 earthquake. The coordinates 29.81ºN, …
Natural and man-made disasters cost $92 billion (81.24 billion euros) in 2015, compared with $113 billion in 2014, the Swiss reinsurer Swiss Re said in report Wednesday. Global insured losses were $37 billion, far below the $62 billion annual average of the last 10 years, it said. The biggest single …
The residents of Murma settlement in Rara VDC are facing water shortage after the water sources in the area dried up because of prolonged drought. “We have been facing problems managing drinking water. One family gets only one gagri (traditional water pot) water per day,” said Dhansingh Rokaya . There …
Hydropower is Nepal's key to development and the country has an economically-viable potential of 40,000 MW of generation capacity of which it can export the surplus to neighbouring South Asian countries including India, a US government funding agency has said. Developing sustainable hydropower generation will enable Nepal to balance its …
The Delhi Transport Corporation on Monday moved the National Green Tribunal seeking registration of a bus, which is to ply on Delhi-Kathmandu route, prompting the green panel to seek a response from the State Transport Authority on the matter. A bench headed by NGT chairperson Justice Swatanter Kumar issued notice …
Darchula police on Sunday made public two people who were arrested earlier on the charge of wildlife poaching. The accused are Janak Bahadur Shahi, 39, of Jubidha-8, Kalikot and Kalamram Parki, 30, of Sunsera-2, Darchula. They were detained for their involvement in the illegal killing of snow leopard, put in …
Mar 14, 2016- The government on Sunday unveiled a 10-year action plan to completely eliminate hunger. Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli and World Food Programme Director General José Graziano da Silva jointly released the “National Action Plan on Zero Hunger Initiative in Nepal” (2016-2025) amid a function. Oli said the …
