Time for climate lesson

A Nepal school that imparts practical knowledge to farmers

Future shocks

Devastating earthquakes are waiting to strike India

Mentally Taxing

From glacier melting to rise in glacial lakes, eastern Himalaya most hit by climate change

Among the 25,614 glacial lakes identified in five major river basins of Hindu Kush Himalayas, Brahmaputra Basin has the highest number of glacial …

Last dancing bears of Nepal rescued

Rescuers found the bears in an extremely distressed state, showing signs of psychological trauma such as cowering, pacing and paw sucking

Nepal faces one of the biggest bird-flu outbreaks

Kathmandu, Pokhra worst affected; repeat outbreak in a span of two weeks worries authorities

Water harvesting

Participants from five countries, including India, discuss ways to improve water harvesting systems

Betrayed

Nepal's forest bureaucracy prepares for the funeral of the much-hailed community forest management programme

MAKING ACCOUNTABLE

Trouble in the air

Strikes and protests greet the Nepal government's decision to ban polluting vehicles

Strong tremors in Delhi, north India after quake strikes Nepal in dead of the night

Epicentre of the quake was located in the Sudurpaschim province in the far west of Nepal, on the border with India

Power struggle

Nepal's controversial Arun III dam becomes the first World Bank-bankrolled project taken up for re-scrutiny by the Bank's new Inspection Panel …

High hopes

Conservation area projects in Nepal prove that people and protected areas need not be mutually exclusive

Monsoon of death

Every monsoon, Baba Raghav Das Medical College of Gorakhpur, Uttar Pradesh, witnesses hundreds of children dying of viral encephalitis or Acute …

Nepal earthquake: rescue brings some hope, but thousands still await relief

Thirty-nine of 75 districts are reported to be affected by the earthquake

Nepal declares energy emergency

To generate 2,500 MW of electricity by 2016

Cruelty by royalty

The phoenix act

Indian vulture populations stabilise after six years of ban on diclofenac; scientists still wary

Dam in check

In an atmosphere of deepening mistrust on the India-Nepal border, Bihar farmers find it difficult to build check dam

'Ministries play the blame game'

Jagdish Bahadur, an expert on glaciers and former joint advisor, department of science and technology, and Syed Iqbal Hasnain, who heads the …

Reaping the benefits

CFM brings social and economic prosperity to several village communities

HOSPITAL WASTE

High and dry in Nepal

Country’s most-arid region is getting less rain than it did before, forcing villages to relocate

Fresh tremors shake Nepal, India

Tremor of magnitude 6.7 experienced in northern and eastern India; Met department asks people to act with extreme caution

A lesson for India

Despite disputes over commercialisation of forest produce, experts believe the movement will not be derailed. Meanwhile, India can take a lesson …