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Nepal’s wet, icy winter
Doti's Budar all snowed in. All Photos: RSSTrans-Himalayan districts of Humla and Jumla as well as East Rukum in Karnali Province have been…
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…
How weather elevates air pollution in Kathmandu
Kathmandu Valley witnessed hazardous levels of air pollution on 4-5 January 2021, with the Air Quality Index (AQI) highest among cities in the…
Heavy monsoon rains forecast for Nepal
Satellite radar image at 1030AM on Sunday showing a series of monsoon pulses moving across Nepal from east to west.The Department of Meteorology…
Don’t just blame God for floods and landslides
Floods over the weekend in Damauli, Tanahu inundates a settlement. Photo: RSSThis year’s monsoon rains started early, and have been heavy. But…
The climate threat multiplier
Lhotse glacier, Chukung village to the far left. Photo: ALTON C BYERSMost of the recent talk within the UN Framework Convention on Climate…
Act globally, think locally
Dozers were required for the rescue of stranded locals and their motorbikes in Kavre during the floods caused by incessant rainfall across the…
Not so soon monsoon
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-aBw2nQHIJUThe monsoon this year has been delayed by more than two weeks, proving forecasters wrong. This has…
Houseful
Pic: GORAKH BISTAKathmandu is bursting at the seams, there is almost no room left to move. A lesson from the 2015 earthquake was that survivors…
Life in the time of tornadoes
Tornado in Bara. Photo: RSSThis is the season for windstorms, and even though the whirlwind that hit the central Tarai on 31 March killing 28…
Lightning kills more people than floods in Nepal
BOLT FROM THE BLUE: A cloud to ground lightning flash strikes Chobar, illuminating Swayambhu and the Balaju area of Kathmandu in 2011. Photo:…
Frozen Shivapuri
For the first time after it snowed on Valentine's Day in 2008, the snow has come down to the foothills of the hills on the Valley rim.These are…
Terrifying assessment of a Himalayan melting
Photo: KUNDA DIXITWhile the global media’s attention is on the Greenland ice sheet, the Arctic and eastern Antarctica, a landmark report…