While top leaders, including Foreign Minister Arzu Rana Deuba, have been vehemently preaching for the success of Sagarmatha ...

Recent analyses by the World Bank and United Nations Environment Programme suggest that air pollution is cumulatively draining between 5 percent to 10 percent of Nepal's GDP annually, up to $4 billion ...

Nepal, April 15 -- Nepal has abundant water ... But then unchecked road construction, rapid urbanisation, water pollution, exploitation of groundwater systems, over-extraction of riverbed ...

KATHMANDU -- When Pabitra Kathayat sought to expand her water filtering business in western Nepal five years ago, she turned to Facebook. Demand had dwindled in the small highway town of Chhinchu, and ...

The Air Quality Life Index, issued by the University of Chicago, estimated in 2024 that air pollution stripped 3.4 years off the life of an average Nepal resident.

Kathmandu (Nepal), April 08 (ANI): As the drone takes ... Kathmandu has emerged as a major air pollution hotspot over the past decade due to urbanization, vehicular emissions, industrial smoke ...

Since then, the city has consistently topped global pollution rankings with AQI levels above 200. But Nepal's air pollution troubles stretch far beyond its capital. Many regions in Nepal's south and ...