Kathmandu. 637 people have obtained permission to climb 18 Himalayan peaks in the autumn season. According to the Department of Tourism, 637 climbers from 68 teams have obtained permission to climb...
The Rasuwa flood was a mega disaster, a wake-up call for the Himalaya. For years we have treated Himalayan disasters as separate incidents. A flood here, a glacial lake outburst somewhere else. But...
Abhas Rijal’s ‘The Witness of Yara’ explores the environmental, cultural and social effects of climate change in Nepal’s Himalayas. Nepali documentary filmmaker Abhas Rijal’s The Witness of Yara h...
On 26 August 2026, as the Himalayas broke, they unleashed a climate catastrophe of unprecedented nature that the world has ever witnessed. Just in a matter of a few minutes, the massive ice-rock sl...
Kathmandu, September 17 The Himalayas are undergoing rapid changes, with the rate of glacier melting increasing by 65 per cent compared with a decade ago, according to a new report. The report hi...
Kathmandu, Sept 12: Former Prime Minister Jhalanath Khanal has said a steady rise in global temperature is having serious implications for the mountainous region, underlining the need to enhance Ne...
Nepal is a geographically small country, but its tourism potential is immense. From the plains of the Terai to the world's highest snow peaks, Nepal's natural, cultural, religious, and historical d...
Nepal’s tourism story is inseparable from the Himalayas. They are our strongest international identity, our greatest tourism asset—and at the same time, a source of risks that Nepal can never compl...
Amrit Bahadur Rai outlines Kathmandu’s push for loss-and-damage funding, adaptation support and greater international attention to the Himalayas. Nepal will use the 81st United Nations General Ass...
KATHMANDU, Sept 20: The Bhotekoshi flood that struck the Nepal–China border region on August 26 has renewed concern about climate change and melting glaciers across the Himalayas.
The Himalayan flood came with the force of a tsunami, tearing through settlements with water, mud and debris and leaving behind homes without families, families without answers and communities stru...
The Himalayan mountain range is revered as the abode of Shiva-Parvati. Indeed, the Himalayas have been a focal point of spiritual practice since time immemorial. The Himalayan region, being peacefu...
The mighty Himalayas along the Nepal-China border symbolise their deep bonhomie and shared ecological destiny, not elements of division. The snowy mountains, glaciers, and lakes straddle both count...
Nepal is drowning in a multi-billion-dollar adaptation gap while wealthy nations offer up endless cycles of sympathy. The Earth is warming at an alarming rate, and glaciers are retreating. Somewhe...
KATHMANDU, Sept 14: Nepal’s recent floods and landslides have exposed the growing climate risks facing the Himalayan country despite its negligible contribution to global greenhouse gas emissions, ...
The political boundaries we draw across the map of the Himalayas are a dangerous fiction. They may make sense on a government map, but they mean very little to a mountain, a glacier or a river. Whi...
Kathmandu. Nepal is preparing to prioritize the damage it is suffering from climate change, climate justice, climate finance, and the impact on the Himalayan region at the 81st session of the Unite...
Threats from glacial lake outburst floods (GLOFs) have loomed large for quite a long time. GLOFs occur when a violent release of water from glacial lakes suddenly takes place in catastrophic propor...
In the high Himalayas, we need multi-hazard detection that starts at the source and crosses borders before the flood does. Rasuwa’s disaster exposed a deeper gap in Himalayan early warning: We are...
Situated in the higly steep and rugged mountains mostly south of the Himalayan range, Nepal is a disaster-prone country. On the morning of August 26, 2026, a massive block of ice fell and melted in...
We have often heard, and repeatedly experienced, that Nepal is highly susceptible to natural hazards. The reasons are largely clear. Geologically, the Himalaya is a relatively young mountain system...
Bhote Koshi is no longer just a river; it has become an eternal cry. Emerging from the chest of the Himalayas, breaking the silence of ages, it is a terrible cry that has turned human civilization ...
The mighty Himalayas, standing between Nepal and China, symbolise not as elements of separation but as a perennial source of mutual bonding and friendship. This natural connection carries ecologica...
Rising temperatures, melting glaciers and unstable mountain slopes are increasing the risk of cascading disasters in the Himalayas. Climate change is leading to conditions that can destabilise hig...
On the morning of August 26, 2026, in the Himalayan region at the top of the world, along the border between Tibet and Nepal, a massive piece of glacier collapsed and fell nearly 5,000 meters down ...
Kathmandu, September 8 The mountain glacier whose collapse triggered deadly floods in Nepal and China on August 26 experienced exceptionally high temperatures in the days before the disaster, acco...
Kathmandu. Foreign Minister Shishir Khanaal has stated that environmental and natural disasters seen in the Himalayan region are not just a problem for one country but a shared challenge with cross...
The catastrophic Bhotekoshi flash flood of August 26 proves that the threat of disasters in the Himalayas amid global warming and climate change is not a fiction but a harsh reality. Moreover, the ...
On August 26, the Himalayas reminded Nepal, once again, of the terrifying power of nature. A sudden rush of water, rock and debris tore through communities along the Bhotekoshi River, leaving death...
The devastating debris flow that struck the Nepal–China border region on August 26 has brought enormous human suffering to communities on both sides of the Himalayas. Lives have been lost, hundreds...
Kathmandu. Nepali Congress MP Sunil Bahadur Thapa has stated that it is necessary to develop an effective disaster early warning system by connecting it with mountains and glaciers along with the m...
The escalating frequency and intensity of climate-induced disasters across the Himalayan ecosystem have shifted Nepal’s reality from an environmental threat to an existential crisis. Torrential dow...
Kathmandu. Nepal has not only viewed the Himalayas as a natural resource or tourist attraction; the Himalayas are the basis of Nepal's civilization, rivers, agriculture, hydropower, culture, and li...
KATHMANDU, Sept 7: Nepal's flood disaster posed an unprecedented challenge, Australian rescue expert Arnold Dix said Monday, with multiple search operations underway in Himalayan hydropower tunnels.
Kathmandu. Despite negligible contribution to global greenhouse gas emissions, landlocked Nepal has become one of the most affected countries due to climate change. Due to its sloped Himalayan ter...
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