cancer

Art for a cause

More than 1,500 children in Nepal are diagnosed every year with some form of cancer. Many of them are treatable, but because...

Polluted politics

Along with poor quality of education, unaffordable healthcare, lack of safe drinking water, crumbling infrastructure, Nepalis have learnt not to expect anything...

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...

Living with cancer during the coronavirus

It hit me like a shock wave. The world stopped, leaving me completely alone and lost.It was the morning of the 15 June,...

Air pollution is more dangerous than smoking

Despite public awareness and relentless media coverage, Kathmandu’s air quality has worsened in the past two years. But public outrage does not...

Sonia Awale

Bad Air

A public perception survey among Kathmandu Valley residents conducted last year shows near unanimous agreement that pollution levels are bad and getting worse. The...

Green sticker = green light to pollute

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c0Sv3a2LjxoVehicle owners in Kathmandu need to pass an annual emission test, but many just buy Green Stickers over the counter while some...

Solution to pollution

Air quality across Nepal has been deteriorating over the years. The average PM2.5 (concentration of particles smaller than 2.5 microns) in Kathmandu...

One Atmosphere

When we reduce air pollution, we reduce the impact of climate change

Toxic bubble

Kathmandu is the centre of everything in Nepal: power, administration, public education, tourism, hospitals. Till the late 1970s, the Valley’s built-up areas...