pesticides

Vultures swing back in Pokhara

Monsoon floods usually bring death and destruction, but that is not necessarily bad news for the vultures of Pokhara Valley which feed on carrion...

Nepal’s vultures: Between existence and extinction

On the grounds of a college campus in Nawalparasi, the great brown birds lay as if they were taking part in some...

Night of the firefly

Many of us have fond childhood memories of the जुनकिरी (firefly), chasing the fascinating lightning bugs through fields and forests. Across the...

Sonia Awale

The fading light of Nepal’s fireflies

Many of us have fond childhood memories of the जुनकिरी firefly, chasing these fascinating flashing bugs through fields and forests. Across the...

Nepal’s other pandemic: cancer

It started with persistent skin allergy for 15-year-old Uma Kumari Sah. She got a checkup at a leprosy hospital in Dhanusa, and later in...

TOXIC PSEUDO-NATIONALISM

It is hard to say which is most worrisome: that pesticide-laced Indian vegetables were coming into Nepal, that the government caved in...

Something fishy in new Nepal farm

Grow vegetables faster, cleaner and with less water than conventional farming — it all sounds very fishy. And it is. Aquaponics combines...

The vanishing land

Ratna Rani Newar grew up helping her grandparents grow vegetables in the fertile farms around Thimi. Today, she is afraid her livelihood...

Project Dragonfly

The morning was warming up in late spring last year when entomologist Karen Conniff took a boat across Phewa Lake in Pokhara for one...

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