Tag: #pesticides
Articles tagged with #pesticides
Vultures swing back in Pokhara
All photos: KRISHNA MANI BARALMonsoon floods usually bring death and destruction, but that is not necessarily bad news for the vultures of…
Nepal’s vultures: Between existence and extinction
69 vultures were found dead in Nawalparasi last month.On the grounds of a college campus in Nawalparasi, the great brown birds lay as if they…
Night of the firefly
Many of us have fond childhood memories of the जुनकिरी (firefly), chasing the fascinating lightning bugs through fields and forests. Across the…
The fading light of Nepal’s fireflies
Many of us have fond childhood memories of the जुनकिरी firefly, chasing these fascinating flashing bugs through fields and forests. Across the…
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…
TOXIC PSEUDO-NATIONALISM
It is hard to say which is most worrisome: that pesticide-laced Indian vegetables were coming into Nepal, that the government caved in to…
Something fishy in new Nepal farm
Photos: HRIJATA DAHALGrow vegetables faster, cleaner and with less water than conventional farming — it all sounds very fishy. And it is.…
The vanishing land
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…
Project Dragonfly
GOING GOING GONE: A female of the new dragonfly species Microgomphus phewataali discovered last year in Pokhara by naturalists Karen Conniff and…