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 …
on New Year's Day 2006, King Gyanendra of Nepal quietly issued an ordinance that many environmentalists fear could prove a major setback to this Himalayan kingdom's efforts over the last decade to restore people's rights over their natural resources. Made public last month, the ordinance is ostensibly aimed at amending …
It is still a common belief that tigers in the wild will eat only creatures that they kill themselves. The first part of this paper gives a review of case histories of scavenging tigers to disprove that false opinion. This knowledge make the management of tigers in the wild easier …
Soil profiles of Kathmandu urban area exhibit significant variations in magnetic susceptibility and saturation isothermal remanence (SIRM), which can be used to discriminate environmental pollution. eprints.lib.hokudai.ac.jp/dspace/handle/2115/38429
Did Nepali Maoist rebels make (Indian) Rs 3.15 crore last year from the trade in medicinal herb Yar Tsa Gumba (Cordyceps sinensis) in Dolpo, a mountain region in Nepal's Midwest? Yes, say local sources, quoting the figure. The government doesn't know the exact amount of profit, but it has concluded …
Private power: Small, 10-15 megawatt power plants, will now be installed across Bangladesh by the private sector. A proposal to this effect was passed by Bangladesh prime minister Begum Khaleda Zia on July 16, 2005. Media reports quoted a highly placed source saying that the power ministry is going to …
nepal's Bagmati river has finally got a respite from the onslaught of Kathmandu's waste. It has suffered the menace since the closure of the Gokarna Landfill site in 1999. But now the waste will be dumped at a semi-aerobic disposal site at Sisdole, in the adjoining Nuwakot district. The move …
The Rhododendron tree is a poet's inspiration and a health freak's delight. It enjoys the status of being the state flower of Nepal, Sikkim, Uttaranchal, and the us states of Washington and West Virginia. Around 110 species of the evergreen tree are found in India. The flowers of most species …
Nepal's poorest people are being forced to suffer the consequences of an alleged attack by Maoist rebels on an aid worker recently. Debkala Acharya, a female worker involved in the Rural Community Infrastructure Works (rciw) in Kalikot district, is recovering from her injuries. The assault led to the German Development …
geologists have discovered an active tectonic fault about 60 kilometres (km) north of Kathmandu in Nepal. The new fault runs 23 km south of the Main Central Thrust (mct), which demarcates the Greater Himalayan ranges in the north from the Lesser Himalayan mountains in the south. Nepal is sandwiched between …
Right check:The government of Nepal and the UN Office of High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) reached an agreement on April 11, 2005 over an international monitoring mechanism to protect human rights in Nepal. The step is a compromise by both parties. Nepal had been staunchly opposing any kind of …
What do clothes and countries have in common other than the fact that both start with the same letter? Both can shrink, according to a US seismologist. Roger Bilham of the Colorado University in the US says Nepal is shrinking by 18 millimetre (mm) each year as a result of …
indian researchers have discovered liver disease patients of Kolkata infected with a few new strains of hepatitis c virus (hcv) closely resembling varieties prevalent in countries such as Thailand, America and Nepal. The scientists also found that various types of hcv are fast evolving in acute and chronic liver patients …
WWF sees the impacts of climate change on glaciers and its subsequent impact on freshwater as a major issue, not just in the national context but also at a regional, transboundary level. The WWF offices in Nepal, India and China are taking the initiative to develop a regional collaboration to …
most issues that require bi-lateral or multi-lateral cooperation in South Asia are in disarray. Be it the recently failed Indo-Pakistan negotiations over the Baglihar dam in Kashmir or the old and vexatious controversy over the Farakka Barrage between India and Bangladesh (see: Conflict over ganga). Invariably, these issues are ecological …
