Hybrids re-emerge as the ideal compromise between EV and petrol
The Thame flood showed climate risk is a given, and Nepal has no choice but to be prepared
Suspected glacial collapse damages half of the settlement of Thame in the Everest region
The time has come for Nepal’s politicians to regard the climate crisis not as a problem, but an opportunity
Imja Glacier has turned into a lake 3km long and 1km wide in the last 30 years due to global warming. Photo: KUNDA DIXITThe double-barrel crisis…
Photo: SONAM CHOEKYI LAMAThe climate crisis is a water crisis – either too much of it, or too little. Droughts have dried up springs, and when…
World leaders must also take a walk, and undo the global crisis set off by the invention of the steam engine
Nepal’s per capita greenhouse gas emission may be negligible compared to industrialised countries, but it has doubled in the last seven years.…
The present concentration of carbon dioxide in earth’s atmosphere is the highest in 2 million years. The average atmospheric temperature in the…
The vast glacial debris field at Bhurmathang in the headwaters of the Melamchi River, which is being constantly washed down by heavy rains this…
The receding Khumbu Glacier below Mt Everest, and Cholatse Lake in Nepal. Photo: ALTON C BYERSHuman activities are damaging the planet at an…
Paddy and maize fields in Kavre. A heavier than usual monsoon this year brought destructive floods, but was a boon to farmers. Photo: AMIT…
That Nepal’s political leadership does not care about the health of its people is abundantly clear from its handling of the Covid-19 crisis.…
All photos: ALEX TREADWAY/ICIMODToday is International Mountain Day, when the world’s attention is drawn to the mountains that are home to 1.1…
Photo: NEPAL OIL CORPORATIONThe global pandemic hijacked 2020 and reset priorities, but countries now need to regroup and renew their commitment…
Glacial lake in the Kangchenjunga region in eastern Nepal near the border with China and India. The Himalaya face the twin threats of climate…
Chinese military exercises on the Tibetan Plateau last week. Photo: GLOBAL TIMESEnvironment ministers from eight countries that border the…
Tso Rolpa glacial lake at 4,580m has grown seven times in size in the past 60 years due to global heating. Photo: RASTRARAJ BHANDARIA new report…
[caption id="attachment54080" align="alignnone" width="900"] Panoramic view of Manang Village and the Gangapurna and Annapurna III Glaciers that…
Photo : GOPEN RAI/NT ARCHIVEThe Sagarmatha National Sambaad held this week was a dress rehearsal for a bigger international event slated for…
As nature’s fury wreaked havoc across Australia, reducing to ashes all that came in its way – people, flora, fauna, picturesque historic towns…
In the coming decade, climate migration may finally make world leaders take action to slow global heating
Illustration: DIWAKAR CHHETRIOne week before the United Nation’s 25thConference of Parties (COP25) began in Madrid the World Meteorological…
