The Environment Department of the Kathmandu Metropolitan City said that the ongoing crackdown on polluting vehicles in the ...

"Since you can't have those things mostly now because of the haze, I have rebranded it with history and culture as there are ...

This toxic air is killing more than 40,000 Nepalis every year, according to the WHO. Worryingly, this toll exceeds casualties ...

"Kathmandu Valley is shaped like a bowl. When there is no rainfall, pollutants remain suspended in the air without settling, and there is little wind movement. As a result, pollution accumulates ...

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It's too late for Nepal to take any meaningful action to combat the effects of global warming. Maine should not make the same mistake. I normally live and study in Maine. This semester, I’m ...

a Swiss group that collects real-time air-quality data round the globe, the particulate matter pollution (PM2.5) levels of Kathmandu on Tuesday morning stood at 241 micrograms per cubic meter.

Pollution levels are spiking in Nepal's capital Kathmandu, leaving its residents with air quality worse than any other city in the world. https://p.dw.com/p/4spXk No ...

A dry winter is intensifying wildfires in Nepal, experts said Wednesday, as the capital Kathmandu continued to suffer from hazardous air quality that ranks it among the most polluted cities globally.

Bhattarai, wearing a mask herself, then thought, it must be the pollution. And as experts would later confirm, her hunch was right. Kathmandu has been suffocating under a thick cloud of toxic air ...

But in Nepal, the more recent trend is that poor visibility due to ground-level air pollution is affecting aviation. The whole of March and part of April, Nepal was blanketed by thick smoke from ...

"Our analysis shows that air quality in Kathmandu was not healthy even before. But the forest fires and a stagnant atmosphere has added on to the existing pollution," ICIMOD air pollution analyst ...