March 2019
Opinion
Climate risk to hydropower investment
Photo: ALTON BYERS n a normal winter, northern India and Nepal get 3-4 westerly disturbances. This year there were 12 […]
March 22, 2019
February 2019
Opinion
Turning on the heat
Photo: GEORGE MALLORY Photo: DAVID BREARSHEARS/GLACIER WORKS nprecedented in recorded history, there was a 100 degree C difference in temperature […]
February 8, 2019
January 2019
Opinion
Nepal’s silent emergency: springs going dry
DRYING UP: Toni Hagen’s famous panorama of Pokhara taken in 1955, and last week from near the same spot at […]
January 4, 2019
November 2018
Opinion
No smoke without fire
n all the debate about Nepal’s increasing fuel imports from India and the country’s growing carbon footprint, what gets lost […]
November 30, 2018
Opinion
Decarbonise now
he conclusion of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Special Report on Global Warming of 1.5ºC could not have been more […]
November 2, 2018
October 2018
The great Himalayan thaw
urricane Florence and typhoon Mangkhut, droughts and record-breaking temperatures this summer have highlighted the increasing threats of extreme weather events […]
October 5, 2018