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 …
With garbage piling mountain-high in Nepal, countries like Russia are now taking up the cause of cleaning up the awe-inspiring Mount Everest. Oleg Fedorov, a Russian ecologist believes that it is possible to return to the mountain its pristine glory, with three years of dedicated effort. The Russian Mountaineering Federation …
For the Nepalese, learning from the kangaroos on how to nurse newborn babies is paying oft. in reducing the infant mortality rate. Mothers are now taught to look after the,ir young ones, especially thosborn wIth low blrth-welght, m a manner sImilar to the kangaroo style of rearing their young 'roos'. …
A VILLAGE in southeast Nepal - Bansbari - is under threat from industrialisation. Largely populated by traditional farming families of Tahrus and Rajbansis, the area is infested with heavy metals, poisonous chemicals and sludge. Villagers say their pleas for a safer environment have fallen on deaf ears. "We lodged a …
In what is termed as the world's highest by electric power Station and also an exi smalls"le power plants, the 600 KW project in Thame, at an altitude of 12,000 feet near the Mount Everest base camp was recently inaugurated in Nepal. The completion of this project would perhaps make …
Nepal's dependence on imported vehicular fuel may become a thing of the past. Oil exports Xt believe that the country has a vast potential to produce Lt- bio-diesel from the seeds of oil bearing plants. Nepal a ce produce a large quantity of plant oil through a pro" nt called …
The Nepalese government has finally made up its mind about what it wants to do with the capital's garbage. It has declared Okharpauwa in Nuwakot district as the final disposal site for the muck. This area will ultimately be developed into a permanent landfill site. The government has also urged …
Under the "Clean up the World" project -part of the UN environment programme -a clean-up campaign is being organised in Nepal's Kathmandu valley between September 15-17. The Nepal-Australia Friendship Society, in cooperation with the Australian Embassy, is behind the campaign. School children, scouts, social organisations, travel agents, hotels and businesspeople, …
A historic victory was achieved by Nepal's environmentalists and citizens' groups, when the World Bank announced on August 4 in Washington DC, that the proposed Bank loan to Nepars Arun IH dam project, which was cleared earlier, would be scrapped. Gopal Siwakoti of the Arun Concerned Group in Nepal said, …
A consortium of4 NGOs has set up this Himalayan kingdom's first community radio - 'Radio Everest' - to spread messages related to development, environmental protection and cultural harmony. If the experiment turns out to be a success, the consortium hopes to support similar NGOs in rural area& to set up …
Nepal has become the first country to implement the concept of community forest use effectively, by assembling its grassroot forces, especially the rural women. The first Regional Community Forestry Users' Group Workshop was inaugurated by Salim Miya Ansari, state minister for forests and soil Conservation on May 23, at the …
The I st phase of a women's small loan project concluded in Deukhuri, Kathmandu recently. Implemented by a group of local NGOs and supervised by the ministry of local development with the Asian Development Bank's finaneial assistance, this phase of the project was geared to encourage women to be thrifty …
The Landless Settlers Problem Commission in Kathmandu has attracted the ire of the locals of Nijgadh, Bara, who claim that they have been wrongly treated as landless settlers although they were settled in the area by the government between 1968 and 1970. During this period, the government had distributed land …
Over 250 medical experts recently met at a 2-day international symposium on diabetes, held in Kathmandu in Nepal. The country has a high incidence of people suffering from this crippling malady. The country has 9.5 per cent of all patients admitted to medical units suffering from diabetes. Although field studies …
Hit by an acute water shortage, residents of Banepa in Kathmandu, Nepal look forward to gifts which include pots of water! Residents of the neighbouring village of Dhulikel -- in an effort to help out their thirsty countrymen in Banepa -- send pots of water to them mainly by the …
Nepali environmentalists are elated over the comeback of rhinos in Chitwan national park, located 140 km south-west of Kathmandu. Almost wiped out by poachers a decade ago, the 1994 official census noted a revival: there are more than 400 rhinos and about 140 tigers in the reserve now. However, dangers …
IT is something of a paradox: no one seems to doubt the apparent merits of Nepal's 402 megawatt (mw) Arun III hydroelectric project, yet the scheme has become fraught with controversy. Almost invariably, the first comment in reply to any reference to the venture is: "Well, Arun III is a …
• Over 60 per cent of the catchment area of the Arun river falls in Tibet; little is known about the hydrological behaviour of the river in this part. • inadequate study of the discharge pattern of the Arun river. critics say that the data collected does not go back …
"India would need power by the time Arun III dam stal1$; producing electricity," said Nepal's Prime Minister Man Mohan Adhikary in response to a question by Down To Earth during his visit to New Delhi in April. Although the viability of the World Bank-sponsored project hinges on India's purchase of …
LOCATION On the Arun river in Sankhuwasabha district,about 200 km east of Kathmandu TOTAL POTENTIAL OF THE ARUN BASIN 1,045 mw PRE-FEASIBlLITY STUDY March 1985 FEASIBILITY STUDY June 1987 DETAILED ENGINEERING STUDY December 1992 TARGET COMMISSIONING DATE April 1, 2001 TOTAL POWER GENERATION 201 mw (Phase I), 201 mw (Phase …
On January 16, 1994, 2 human rights activists, Gopal Siwakoti and Rajesh Gautam filed a public interest petition in the Supreme Court under Article 16 of the Constitution which recognises the right to information as fundamental. Siwakoti and Gautam went to court with the complaint that they were denied access …
