“The westerlies are very strong this year, and this may block the system coming from the Bay of Bengal north towards Nepal, causing heavy rainfall,” says Archana Shrestha of the Department of ...

The Bhote Kosi-Trisuli flood disaster is also a stark reminder that development has to go hand-in-hand with conservation, and that we ignore nature at our own peril. Building on those gains in the ...

On 16 September, Nepal’s cybersphere woke up rattled and divided after an explosive investigation in Himal Southasian by Erin L. Thompson exposing the deeply compromised legacy of American scholar and ...

Assigning blame for the climate crisis will, no doubt, be a compelling message during the year of a super-charged El Niño. It will also add counterweight to rising climate denialism and rollback on ...

Until last year, Nepal had 34 embassies and 10 consulates around the world. After the GenZ protest led to the formation of the interim government headed by former Chief Justice Sushila Karki, 12 ...

Three weeks after the Bhote Kosi-Trisuli disaster, the number of missing has climbed to 6,145 as information from various municipalities is collated. Some 1,410 bodies have so far been retrieved, and ...

Manthali Bazar in Ramechhap is situated on the banks of the Tama Kosi, which floods even during the monsoon, inundating its airfield. Upstream is the potentially dangerous Tso Rolpa glacial lake which ...

The accelerated melting of Himalayan glaciers is mainly caused by global warming due to the buildup of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere. But a new study has confirmed that air pollution deposits ...

In Bengaluru last April, a 32-year-old passenger traveling from the UK arrived with a cargo consignment from Vienna. Declared as ‘grey stone stele of Padmapani’, airport customs officials instantly ...

Three weeks after a catastrophic collapse on Langtang Lirung in Nepal, scientists have pieced together satellite images and weather data of the mountain to conclude that climate breakdown was one of ...