How to save Kathmandu’s Bagmati river from urban blight
A decade after the 2015 earthquake, ancient town balances reconstruction with restoration
Research maps network of ancient water canals that still function despite urban pressure
Urban agriculture can be Nepal's solution to falling food production, can create jobs, recharge groundwater and preserve open spaces
On Nepal’s annual Rice Day, a reminder about urban growth devouring paddy fields
Nine years after the 2015 earthquake, Kathmandu has to ask: how safe are the new tall structures
Green onions grown recycling plastic waste at Manandhar’s rooftop. Photo: BIJAYA MANANDHARWhen the Covid-19 pandemic disrupted food supply,…
All photos: GOPEN RAIOver the last decades, Nepal’s socio-political transformation has led the country from an agriculturally-dependent rural…
Source: TROPICAL TIDBITS.COMSource: SCOTT DUNCANThis spring, northern India saw the hottest March since records started being kept 120 years…
What drives Nepal's singular obsession with owning a house?
Photo: AMIT MACHAMASIEvery spring Kathmandu turns into a city of flowers blooming with jacaranda and bougainvillea. People wait year-round to…
Kathmandu Valley's only landfill site Sisdole has reached its maximum capacity. All photos: AMIT MACHAMASINepal’s capital stank for more than a…
Aerial photograph of Kathmandu Valley, looking west over the floodplain in 1967. Photo: EARL WEBB/DOUG HALL PEACE CORPS COLLECTIONS Kathmandu…
A landslide in Jajarkot last year. Photo: RSSBy any measure, the past year has been disastrous for Nepal. The Covid-19 lockdowns devastated the…
Many of us have fond childhood memories of the जुनकिरी (firefly), chasing the fascinating lightning bugs through fields and forests. Across the…
Many people do not know where Maitighar intersection got its name: there used to be the office of the Nepali movie माइतीघर in the 1960s with a…
Photo: SONIA AWALEHaphazard urbanisation, a continually growing population and long delays in the finalisation of the Melamchi Project have…
Haphazard urbanisation in Nepal has created ideal conditions for the mosquito that carries the disease
Farmers in the Tarai displaced by floods return to their homes, better protected for the next disaster
Our ancestors knew how to store monsoon runoff for year-round use, we must learn from them
Pic: MONIKA DEUPALAIn January 2018, Cape Town faced the possibility of executing a ‘Day Zero’ water plan: the city’s residents would have to…
Pic: GORAKH BISTAKathmandu is bursting at the seams, there is almost no room left to move. A lesson from the 2015 earthquake was that survivors…
Ratna Rani Newar does not know how much longer she can keep her vegetable farm in Thimi. Photos: TAYLOR MASONRatna Rani Newar grew up helping…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iW60CnUgR-IThree elderly people look up with wonder and reverence, palms pressed together at the Boudhanath…
