The farm-use monorail system is being eyed for use in the construction of hydraulic power plants in the Himalayas. In Nepal, where nearly 80 percent of the land is mountainous, construction and ...

Nepal’s government lacks official data on nilgais outside the country’s national ... Bodh Raj Mourya, a farmer from Gaidahawa ...

In the Himalayas of Nepal, snow leopards often prey on livestock and face retaliation from humans. A group of Nepali women have developed a simple solution to help keep both livestock and the ...

Unscrupulous agencies peddle work to rural job-seekers, then disappear. This leaves migrants without protections — and, in ...

Rinchen's farm, for example, is part of a tiny Himalayan hamlet, in a valley flanked by tall rocky cliffs. As in other communities in Nepal, the people here share their scarce pasturelands with ...

Open fires and wildfires emit hazardous pollutants such as particulate matter, nitrogen oxides, carbon monoxide, sulphur ...

Pine trees in Nepal’s Palpa. Image by Abhaya Raj Joshi. Ganga Thapa, a farmer in Sarlahi’s Ishworpur municipality, said the eucalyptus plants on her farm are like “moisture-sucking monsters.” ...