May 2020
COVID-19
Another crisis in a disaster-prone state
Photo: MANISH PAUDEL s the number of confirmed cases of coronavirus in Nepal crossed the 600 mark this weekend and […]
May 25, 2020
December 2019
Opinion
Make-or-break decade for climate action
Illustration: DIWAKAR CHHETRI ne week before the United Nation’s 25th Conference of Parties (COP25) began in Madrid the World Meteorological […]
December 13, 2019
November 2019
Opinion
The Water Emergency
The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change was agreed in 1992 to deal with the increasing atmospheric concentration of carbon […]
November 21, 2019
August 2019
Opinion
The climate threat multiplier
Lhotse glacier, Chukung village to the far left. Photo: ALTON C BYERS ost of the recent talk within the UN […]
August 9, 2019
July 2019
Opinion
Where is the monsoon this year?
Pic: MONIKA DEUPALA n January 2018, Cape Town faced the possibility of executing a ‘Day Zero’ water plan: the city’s […]
July 5, 2019
May 2019
Opinion
Toxic bubble
Pic: BIKRAM RAI athmandu is the centre of everything in Nepal: power, administration, public education, tourism, hospitals. Till the late […]
May 31, 2019
April 2019
Opinion
Life in the time of tornadoes
Tornado in Bara. Photo: RSS his is the season for windstorms, and even though the whirlwind that hit the central […]
April 26, 2019
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