Illustration: DIWAKAR CHETTRI n 1763, Scottish inventor James Watt was given a steam engine to repair. Developed by Thomas Newcomen, […]

Gauri Shankhar and Mt Everest visible from Kathmandu in May during the first lockdown. Photo: Abhushan Gautam / Nepali Times […]

Photo: MANISH PAUDEL s the number of confirmed cases of coronavirus in Nepal crossed the 600 mark this weekend and […]

Illustration: DIWAKAR CHHETRI ne week before the United Nation’s 25th Conference of Parties (COP25) began in Madrid the World Meteorological […]

The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change was agreed in 1992 to deal with the increasing atmospheric concentration of carbon […]

Lhotse glacier, Chukung village to the far left. Photo: ALTON C BYERS ost of the recent talk within the UN […]

Pic: MONIKA DEUPALA n January 2018, Cape Town faced the possibility of executing a ‘Day Zero’ water plan: the city’s […]

Pic: BIKRAM RAI athmandu is the centre of everything in Nepal: power, administration, public education, tourism, hospitals. Till the late […]

Tornado in Bara. Photo: RSS his is the season for windstorms, and even though the whirlwind that hit the central […]

Photo: ALTON BYERS n a normal winter, northern India and Nepal get 3-4 westerly disturbances. This year there were 12 […]