Tag:Nepal

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Mount Everest is higher than we thought – Nepal, China

Nepal and China on Tuesday, December 8, 2020 said Mount Everest is higher than previously thought, settling a long-running conflict over the height of...

Michael Simire - December 8, 2020

Disaster Risk Management

Over 200 die after weeks of flooding, landslides in South Asia

Weeks of severe flooding and landslides across Nepal, India and Bangladesh on Monday, July 20, 2020 left more than 200 dead, with high waters...

Michael Simire - July 20, 2020

Human Welfare

875 people commit suicide during lockdown period in Nepal

A total of 875 people have committed suicide during the lockdown period in Nepal. The country has been under lockdown, against the novel coronavirus disease,...

Michael Simire - May 27, 2020

Conservation

International Day for Biodiversity: CITES applauds as Nepal destroys confiscated wildlife parts

At the occasion of the destruction of confiscated and other wildlife parts at the Chitwan National Park in Nepal, which was timed to coincide...

admin - May 22, 2017

Conservation

A tiny Nepalese community tracks snow leopards

Just beyond the remote mountain village of Yangma in the high Himalayas of eastern Nepal, Nepali conservationists fitted a female snow leopard with a...

admin - July 15, 2016

Climate Change

Nepal submits climate action plan

The Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal on Thursday submitted its new climate action plan to the Bonn, Germany-based UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). Nepal’s Intended...

admin - February 5, 2016

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Household biogas systems improve lives in Nepal

Health and wellbeing in Nepal are being improved, thanks to a Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) programme bringing clean-burning cookstoves to households in place of...

admin - November 3, 2015