Tag: #transboundary pollution
Articles tagged with #transboundary pollution
Cleaning up the Himalayan airshed
Pollution from North India and Pakistan clouds the sky over Nepal worsening health risk and melting ice caps
Bad air and polluted politics
Political resolve to improve air quality will add 3-5 years to the lives of Nepalis
The politics of pollution
Air pollution does not respect national boundaries, neither should the solution to it
Going up in smoke
The smoke blanketing Nepal this week is not just from forest fires but also burning wheat stalk after harvest
Dirty snow defrosts Nepal’s mountains
Soot and dust particles from pollution that settle on the Khumbu Glacier makes it melt faster. Photo: EELUM DIXIT.Fine suspended particles in…
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…
Central Nepal engulfed in smoke
Haze shrouds Bhaktapur on Monday afternoon as smoke from fires in Chitwan engulfed Kathmandu Valley and Central Nepal. Photo: AMIT…
How transboundary haze affects Nepal
A NASA satellite image showing Central Nepal's river valleys and how they act as funnels for pollution from the Indian plains to travel up to…
A Biden presidency, climate and the Himalaya
The south face of Mt Gauri Shankar (7,134m) on the border between Nepal and China is bare rock, and shows how dramatically the snowline has…