15+ hour, 45+ min ago   (384+ words) The Kathmandu Post Nepal fell in love with EVs. It forgot to regulate them Early Friday morning, in Bharatpur, a 55-year-old former school director lost his life inside a burning electric car while driving home. By the time firefighters reached…...

15+ hour, 51+ min ago   (503+ words) That reality goes beyond Bhotekoshi, to the heart of how Nepal should understand climate change and disaster risk. My experience in public health and infectious diseases has taught me an important lesson: many health risks do not appear suddenly. Small…...

1+ day, 14+ hour ago   (639+ words) The Kathmandu Post Nature doesn’t care about your climate conference speech The Earth is warming at an alarming rate, and glaciers are retreating. Somewhere in the developed world, policymakers are still busy calculating GDP growth, energy demand and economic returns....

1+ day, 13+ hour ago   (556+ words) August is when Nepal’s paddy fields are at their most vibrant. After months of planting, weeding and caring for their crops, this season calls for farmers to grow hopeful of the harvest. Farmers in Rasuwa, Nuwakot, and Dhading were no…...

3+ day, 13+ hour ago   (1477+ words) When the flood hit ward 5 of Bidur Municipality in Nuwakot on August 26, 38-year-old Bharat Prasad Dahal knew something was wrong from the sound of people shouting and running for safety. Blind, Dahal could not flee on his own. Two or…...

5+ day, 5+ hour ago   (1027+ words) For a country that contributes little to global greenhouse gas emissions, Nepal is paying an increasingly high price for climate change. Floods, landslides, glacial lake outburst floods and other climate-related hazards are destroying homes, roads, farms and other infrastructure with…...

6+ day, 1+ hour ago   (1627+ words) Mansing Tamang, ward chairman of Uttargaya-4 in the flood-hit Rasuwa district, has been waiting in Dhunche for three days for a helicopter to take 250 sacks of rice and other relief supplies to Mailung and nearby settlements. The road to his…...

5+ day, 15+ hour ago   (796+ words) The Kathmandu Post Time to move past the basics in disaster response Disasters do not affect everyone in the same way. For one family, the urgent need may be food and clean water; for another, it may be a wheelchair,…...

6+ day, 15+ hour ago   (1428+ words) The impact of the floods in the Bhotekoshi River is beginning to ripple through Nepal’s tourist industry, with hotels reporting a wave of cancellations just as the peak autumn tourist season gets underway. Hotels in Pokhara, Chitwan and Lumbini say…...

1+ week, 16+ hour ago   (868+ words) Pasang Mendo Tamang, a resident of Thulo Haku in Rasuwa, still repeatedly faints. Her 21-year-old eldest son, Binay, went missing in the August 26 Bhotekoshi flood. “She has hardly eaten anything since. She keeps crying, and I fear she could die…...