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 …
MORE than 1,800 sq krn of the country's remote northeast region bordering China and India will soon be declared a protected area called the Kanchenjunga Conservation Area. The government of Nepal is working with experts in India and China on plans to conserve the unique wildlife, forests, flowers and ethnic …
International power companies eyeing Nepalese hydropower resources may soon receive the opportunity to come forward with their Investment proposals. The ministry of water resources, the apex government institution responsible for the development of hydropower In Nepal, is learnt to have completed its preparations to reopen negotiations with International power companies …
With the help of a grant assistance of US $1.8 million from Finland, the Nepal government will be preparing a complete inventory of Nepalese forest resources under the forest resources information system project. The government has already compiled information on about 40 percent of land area as part of the …
Speculation is rife that tea production in Nepal may decline as poor rainfall until this time of the year has resulted in the inadequate growth of tealeaves. Although tea estates located in the northern part of the country have not been affected much by the drought, those in the southern …
the Nepalese government is coming down heavily on polluting automobiles, in a bid to prevent air pollution assuming dangerous proportions. Roughly 100,000 vehicles ply regularly on the streets of Kathmandu and among them are 1,200 diesel tempos, which are regarded as the prime source of air pollution in the valley. …
The 144-MW Kali Gandaki :' (KGA) hydroelectricity project in Syngja, Nepal, was recently inaugurated. Various national NGOs, in collaboration with their international counterparts, have been opposing the construction of the project arguing that the KGA would cause environmental imbalance, adversely affect biodiversity and cause displacement and soil erosion.
Of all the community forests being developed in Nepal's 57 districts, the forest region of Dang district is being fast developed as a model for community forestry. About a total of 27,000 families have been involved in this district as part of the project. An expert said, if the national …
According to an early February report, the highly ambitious Mahakali project implemented by the Nepalese government requires much more organised effort to control flooding, river shifting and leakages of irrigation canals. This assessment is based on past experiences of the Sarada barrage of the project
The Geneva-based 61-member UN disarmament commission began its 1997 session on January 21 to establish a committee on a fissile materials cut-off treaty, a top priority on the UN's agenda since March 1995. But the developing countries' insistence on multilateral talks to eliminate all nuclear weapons within a fixed period …
developing water resources in the eastern Himalayan region through integrated regional projects is the only way to ameliorate poverty in south Asian countries. This was emphasised by participants at a recent conference in Kathmandu on regional co-operation in harnessing rivers. Experts from Nepal, Bangladesh and India concluded that shelving water …
A recent monitoring of suspended particulate matter (SPM) in Kathmandu, Nepal, by a Japan-based agency has alarmed the government. According to N H Rajbhandari, a senior meteorologist, the annual average SPM level in Kathmandu in 1994 was 202 microgrammes/cu m, 226 in 1995, showing signs of a further climb. Monitoring …
The nationwide livestock development project in Nepal which is in its third phase, is slated to receive a boost as the Asian Development Bank recently agreed to provide a loan assisstance from its special funds to the Government. The overall aim of the project
NEATLY painted white and bearing the inscription safa tempo (meaning clean three-wheeler in Nepali language) on the sides in green letters - the electric passenger vehicles have come as a blessing in disguise to rescue the residents of Kathmandu. Although only seven in number at present, in the safa tempo, …
Pollution tests are a joke in Nepal. While the government standards for carbon monoxide by volume emissions for three-wheelers is three, the company standard is four-and-a- half. Effectively, this should put all three-wheelers off the roads, but this is not so. Quite simply, bribery rules the day. Romendra Singh Deuja, …
The World Wide Fund for Nature-Nepal launched a new global conservation campaign on October 1 for the conservation of endangered species, maintenance of viable population of threatened species and to discourage their illegal trade. The
Nepal will receive a US $18.28 million World Bank (WB) credit for a rural water supply and a sanitation project. The fund will deliver sustainable health and hygiene benefits to the rural population, according to WB officials. The project will also provide for water and sanitation schemes for the Nepalese. …
Nepal will continue to benefit from Australia's assistance in the community forestry sector. A new project in the districts of Sindhupalchok and Kabrepalanchok will have the backing of Australian expertise and aims to incorporate community forestry with income generation and conservation activities. This project will begin early next year once …
Anti-pollution measures have been introduced by the government to control growing vehicular emissions in Nepal. Data from two months of emission tests has revealed that emission levels of four-wheelers were higher than the prescribed limit. Polluting vehicles whose emission levels are not brought down even after a stipulated two month …
farming in Nepal expectedly is a tough job with hilly terrains all around where irrigation is extremely difficult. The bleak economic scenario, too, adds to the disadvantages and the use of external inputs such as chemical fertilisers is minimal. Cultivation of crops almost entirely depends on locally available nutrients from …
Nepal has more than 5,200 AIDS patients and there may be between 5,000 to 10,000 HIV-positive cases. According to medical experts, by the end of the century, the country may have 22,000 to 50,000 HIV-infected cases and nearly 9,000 AIDS patients. But the World Health Organization puts the present number …
