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Articles tagged with #brick kilns
Why is the air in Bhaktapur so bad?
Brick kilns, heavy highway traffic and prevailing winds make air quality the dirtiest in Kathmandu Valley
Breathing can kill you
Vehicles are one of the biggest emitters of PM2.5 and other pollutants in Kathmandu. Photos: AMIT MACHAMASIIt is that time of the year again…
Happy New Air
Photo: AMIT MACHAMASIOn Thursday morning, Nepali Times photographer Amit Machamasi was greeted with a shocking sight when he drove up to…
Polluted politics
Photo: NEPALI TIMES ARCHIVEAlong with poor quality of education, unaffordable healthcare, lack of safe drinking water, crumbling infrastructure,…
Breathing is hazardous to health
https://youtu.be/0E0s-5VtGU4Rekha Thapa of Dailekh, in far western Nepal had a job in Kathmandu after graduation, but she was not able to join.…
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.…
Nepal’s other pandemic: cancer
Uma Kumari Sah with her grandmother.It started with persistent skin allergy for 15-year-old Uma Kumari Sah. She got a checkup at a leprosy…