10,000 bridges
Nepal’s foot bridges have evolved from being essential for connectivity to also becoming tourist attractions
infrastructure-development
Building Nijgad, come what may
As the date for a final Supreme Court ruling on the proposed new international airport in Nijgad approaches, uncertainty once more shrouds...
Infrastructure for wildlife in Nepal
Nepal’s highways saw 108 roadkills of endangered wildlife last year. There were even more hit-and-run fatalities of animals outside protected areas, even...
Deadly monsoon in Nepal turns deadlier
Even in normal years Nepal has one of the highest fatality rates in the world from landslides and flashfloods. But even by...
Light at the end of the Melamchi tunnel
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UIdbmBlnVZI&feature=youtu.beNearly 25 years after it was first mooted, there is light at the end of the tunnel for Melamchi, Nepal’s biggest and...
For and against Nijgad airport
How ironic, when we destroy something created by man we term it as ‘vandalism’ but when we destroy something created by nature...
Think locally, act locally
Local activists goad local governments to deliver services
Between existence and extinction in Nepal
Nepal is situated at the crossroads of four eco-biological domains to the north, south, east and west. The country’s great altitudinal range...
In conservation, Nepal is not out of the woods yet
With poaching under control, the big new threat to Nepal’s nature is from infrastructure
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