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Rev your car (and charge it, too)
Hybrids re-emerge as the ideal compromise between EV and petrol
Lives on the line in the Himalaya
The Thame flood showed climate risk is a given, and Nepal has no choice but to be prepared
Climate breakdown linked to Thame flood
Suspected glacial collapse damages half of the settlement of Thame in the Everest region
Election climate in Nepal
The time has come for Nepal’s politicians to regard the climate crisis not as a problem, but an opportunity
Himalayans on the frontlines
Imja Glacier has turned into a lake 3km long and 1km wide in the last 30 years due to global warming. Photo: KUNDA DIXITThe double-barrel crisis…
Women and water
Photo: SONAM CHOEKYI LAMAThe climate crisis is a water crisis – either too much of it, or too little. Droughts have dried up springs, and when…
Back to Glasgow, where it all began
World leaders must also take a walk, and undo the global crisis set off by the invention of the steam engine
Nepal doubles its carbon footprint
Nepal’s per capita greenhouse gas emission may be negligible compared to industrialised countries, but it has doubled in the last seven years.…
Decarbonisation needs to begin today
The present concentration of carbon dioxide in earth’s atmosphere is the highest in 2 million years. The average atmospheric temperature in the…
Nepal needs weather stations in the Himalaya
The vast glacial debris field at Bhurmathang in the headwaters of the Melamchi River, which is being constantly washed down by heavy rains this…
Mountainous regions face catastrophic impacts without urgent climate action
The receding Khumbu Glacier below Mt Everest, and Cholatse Lake in Nepal. Photo: ALTON C BYERSHuman activities are damaging the planet at an…
UN climate report declares planetary emergency
Paddy and maize fields in Kavre. A heavier than usual monsoon this year brought destructive floods, but was a boon to farmers. Photo: AMIT…
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.…
Peak ambition
All photos: ALEX TREADWAY/ICIMODToday is International Mountain Day, when the world’s attention is drawn to the mountains that are home to 1.1…
Peak ambition
All photos: ALEX TREADWAY/ICIMODToday is International Mountain Day, when the world’s attention is drawn to the mountains that are home to 1.1…
Blueprint for a net-zero Nepal
Photo: NEPAL OIL CORPORATIONThe global pandemic hijacked 2020 and reset priorities, but countries now need to regroup and renew their commitment…
A new Cold War in the Himalaya
Glacial lake in the Kangchenjunga region in eastern Nepal near the border with China and India. The Himalaya face the twin threats of climate…
Himalayan rivalry impacts climate science
Chinese military exercises on the Tibetan Plateau last week. Photo: GLOBAL TIMESEnvironment ministers from eight countries that border the…
Nepal's glacial lakes in danger of bursting
Tso Rolpa glacial lake at 4,580m has grown seven times in size in the past 60 years due to global heating. Photo: RASTRARAJ BHANDARIA new report…
Forests replace glaciers in the Himalaya
[caption id="attachment54080" align="alignnone" width="900"] Panoramic view of Manang Village and the Gangapurna and Annapurna III Glaciers that…
Declaring an emergency
Photo : GOPEN RAI/NT ARCHIVEThe Sagarmatha National Sambaad held this week was a dress rehearsal for a bigger international event slated for…
Australia’s bushfires bring mounting pressure to reduce greenhouse gases
As nature’s fury wreaked havoc across Australia, reducing to ashes all that came in its way – people, flora, fauna, picturesque historic towns…
Mt Everest is melting : Are you moved?
In the coming decade, climate migration may finally make world leaders take action to slow global heating
Make-or-break decade for climate action
Illustration: DIWAKAR CHHETRIOne week before the United Nation’s 25thConference of Parties (COP25) began in Madrid the World Meteorological…