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How South Asia's vultures were rescued from the brink of extinction

Nepal, Sept. 30 -- Munir Virani is a conservation biologist and filmmaker who has dedicated his life to protecting birds of prey. Born in Kenya and now based in Abu Dhabi with the Mohamed bin Zayed Ra... Read More


Tenzing screens for the home crowd

Nepal, Sept. 29 -- 2026 has not been an easy year for Nepal and its mountaineering community. Celebrity climber Nims Purja and five other Nepalis were killed on Broad Peak in Pakistan on 30 July. The... Read More


Remembering Dr Harka Gurung: A Scholar Nepal Still Needs

Nepal, Sept. 28 -- wenty years ago, on September 23, 2006, Nepal suffered one of the most devastating losses in its modern history. A helicopter carrying a group of conservationists, government offici... Read More


Monsoon storms batter Nepal

Nepal, Sept. 27 -- month after the catastrophic flood on the Bhote Kosi-Trisuli, Nepal has been battered by a late monsoon storm that caused a deadly avalanche on a mountaineering peak on Sunday, land... Read More


Nepal, one month after

Nepal, Sept. 26 -- This Saturday it is exactly one month since the catastrophe on the Bhote Kosi-Trisuli. The death toll in Nepal and China is exceeding 8,000. One month on, only 110 of the 1,450 rec... Read More


Rethinking risk and development in the Himalaya

Nepal, Sept. 25 -- The World Weather Attribution rapid review last week of climate models based on weather observations and existing geological research reinforced what scientists have long argued: cl... Read More


Departure from the norm

Nepal, Sept. 24 -- When Prime Minister Balendra Shah departed from Kathmandu on Tuesday on a scheduled Qatar Airways flight, there was no guard of honour, no diplomats and officials lining up to say b... Read More


At Dag Hammarskjold's grave, 65 years later

Nepal, Sept. 23 -- The Dag Hammarskjold grave in Uppsala in Sweden is a quiet place, a long way from New York and from the wars the United Nations exists to prevent. He died exactly 65 years ago on 1... Read More


Himalayan expeditions hunker down as monsoon storm approaches

Nepal, Sept. 22 -- Autumn climbing season is in full swing but difficult weather conditions due to a deep depression from the Bay of Bengal heading towards Nepal From 24-27 September poses a danger to... Read More


Nepal on high alert for heavy rain

Nepal, Sept. 21 -- A depression over the Bay of Bengal set to hit the Odisha coast may intensify into a cyclone, veer north and threaten heavy rain in the Bhote Kosi-Trisuli valley that was ravaged by... Read More