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 …
Residents of the Chapai-Nawabganj area have demanded affective steps to check the erosion of rivers, including the Padma. About 25,000 people from different areas in the region have also threatened to launch a massive agitation if the government fails to take positive steps. As many as 18 shops of Basudevpur …
The Nepal government will soon introduce a biodiversity action plan in an attempt to save the country's rich flora and fauna. The ministry of forest and soil conservation is finalising the plan, which officials say, "will help improve the plight of Nepal's endangered wildlife, ecosystems, forests and even the agricultural …
what do you do when the government cannot provide you with electricity, though the country's hydropower potential is a whopping 83,000 megawatts? You get it somehow. This seems to be the attitude of people living in rural Nepal, which comprises some 85 per cent of the total population. In their …
a recent study conducted by the Nepal forum of Environmental Journalists ( nefej ) has confirmed that Kathmandu is today one of the most polluted cities among the South Asian countries, its air quality levels being comparable to Mexico city
Environmentalists and legal experts have accused the Nepal government for what they say an "irresponsible' amendment of the Environment Protection Regulation 1997. According to them, any amendment in the regulation will adversely effect the environment as industrial sectors will begin to enjoy a monopoly over the country's pristine nature and …
A three-day review and evaluation meeting of the National Tuberculosis Programme was held in Bhaktapur, Nepal, recently. The review meeting was held in connection with conducting the quarterly review of activities of governmental and non-governmental organisations working in the National Tuberculosis Prevention and Control Programme in all the five developmental …
Groundwater in 44 districts of Nepal is contaminated with arsenic, according to the country's Public Health Engineering Department. In some areas, the arsenic content is 10 times higher than the acceptable level. Out of the 60 districts where groundwater tests were carried out, only 16 were found free from harmful …
Public health experts in Nepal suspect strains of influenza Virus-A to be behind the epidemic that killed more than 600 people in remote mountainous districts like Jumla and Kalikot. M Luna, an epidemiologist with the World Health organisation (WHO), who is also a technical advisor to the country's Epidemiology and …
protest by the residents of Maitidevi in Kathmandu Valley, Nepal, against diesel-driven three-wheelers (Vikram tempos) reached a flashpoint on April 14. Police had to resort to lathicharge when harassed residents started pelting stones at the offending vehicles. The people are demanding that diesel vehicles should not be allowed to ply …
An epidemic of viral influenza and other diseases have claimed 820 lives in the past two months in Nepal. The northwest district of Kalikot and Jumla were the worst affected with 483 dead and more than 25,000 requiring treatment, the state-run RSS news agency said quoting the epidemiology and disease …
The residents of Nepal's Kathmandu valley are facing an acute water crisis. Water piped by the state-owned utility is already in short supply, prompting many households to either bore wells or buy untreated water from private entrepreneurs. Kathmandu valley encompasses three cities, and together they need 180 million litres of …
officially recognised as one of the poorest regions of Nepal, the people of Kanchanpur, a district in the country's far-west, have had to survive with whatever little returns they got from their lands. And these were not enough. The district was being afflicted by a bigger, more formidable problem
An American researcher and a Fulbright scholar Nina Jablonski, has claimed to have found a fossil of a hippopotami in Nepal, which is said to be around a millionof years old. Hippopotamus is a large mammal which is now only found in Africa. "We found the fossils in the east-Koshi …
According to a survey carried out by a group of young students from Nepal and Japan, water flowing in Bagmati river in the Jorpati region of Nepal is heavily polluted. The students were from fourth to ninth standards. The survey showed that the acid content in the water was higher …
Glaciologists are arguing on the speed at which the Himalayan glaciers are reteating. Doubts have been raised on the IPCC Report. Read this report on Himalayan glaciology by Syed Hasnain which is leading to the controversy. Glacier research conducted during the last quarter of 20th century in the Himalaya Karakoram …
People of Deukhuri valley in Nepal are putting pressure on the Village Development Chairman (VDQ to check salutation in Rapti river. local people are demanding Rs 300, 000 out of the Rs 500,000, which the VDC receives under the Rural Self-Retiance Programme, should be used for river control and flood …
Over 100 people have died of gastro-enteritis epidemic in eastern Nepal. The disease has killed 40 people in the Rautahat district while 60 people died in Siraba district. More than 2,500 people have become victims of the epidemic in Rautahat district, which borders India. Gastro-enteritis is one of the major …
IT'S the same story every year. Monsoons, rivers in spate, floods, loss of lives and property. For the people living in the banks of rivers, floods have become a way of life. The intensity varies, as does the damage. One such state which hits the headlines during the monsoons is …
