Tag: #air quality
Articles tagged with #air quality
Air pollution killing season starts early
Dirty air kills 41,000 Nepalis a year, this winter will be no different
Poisoning children at school
Schools situated along busy roads have air so toxic it is 8 times higher than what is considered safe
WARNING: Breathing is hazardous to health
Photo: AMIT MACHAMASI/NEPALI TIMES ARCHIVETwo studies published this week show that the air in Kathmandu is even more hazardous to health than…
‘Nepal must scrap old diesel vehicles’
Morning rush hour at the congested Koteswor intersection in Kathmandu. Photo: AMIT MACHAMASIThe rapidly deteriorating air quality in Nepal…
Happy New Air
Photo: AMIT MACHAMASIOn Thursday morning, Nepali Times photographer Amit Machamasi was greeted with a shocking sight when he drove up to…
Dirty Kathmandu air gets dirtier
Photo: NEPALI TIMES ARCHIVEKathmandu’s air quality has just got considerably worse, not just because of dirtier air, but because the World…
While the forests are burning
Nepal continues to face a series of forest fire incidents
No smoke without fire
All photos: BIJAYABAR PRADHANNepalis continue to endure the worst air quality in recent years as wildfires ravage the forests at unprecedented…
Nepal is going up in smoke
Wildfires lead to hazardous air quality for third straight day, with no end in sight
Wildfires in Nepal cause air quality to plummet
Smoke from wildfires was thick enough to nearly block out the sun in Kathmandu. Photos: KUNDA DIXITKathmandu Valley endured one of the worst air…
Polluted politics
Photo: NEPALI TIMES ARCHIVEAlong with poor quality of education, unaffordable healthcare, lack of safe drinking water, crumbling infrastructure,…
Wildfires ravage Nepal mountains
The fire in Manang started on 26 November and is still raging as seen in these pictures taken on Tuesday. Photos: NABIN LAMICHHANE/RSSA three…
Dirty politics = Dirty air
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.…
Double whammy: air pollution and Covid-19
Photo: MONIKA DEUPALAIn the past eight months of this year, 791 people have died in Nepal from Covid-19. In the whole of 2019, air pollution…
Pollution bad for children: UNICEF
Plume of pollution headed our way from Northern India seen in this NASA satellite image taken this week. Smoke is mostly from stubble…
Traffic police get high-tech masks
Britain's Cambridge Mask Company is selling military-grade anti-air pollution masks to Nepal’s traffic police, who have to breathe one of the…
Delhi’s deadly air
NEW DELHI – A diplomat friend returning home after less than three years’ service in India, was asked at his exit medical examination how many…
Riding above the haze
Mountain biking with a mask is better than no exercise at all It was only after getting above Budhanilkantha that I took my mask off, as I…