The Bhotekoshi flood shows why Nepal’s climate crisis must also be understood as a public-health crisis.

At a moment when history is on the cusp of major transformation, creating a play based on the life and work of a dedicated politician and freedom fighter feels like deeply meaningful ‘karma’.

Farmers affected by this disaster are the same people who help put food on our tables every day.

Nepal is drowning in a multi-billion-dollar adaptation gap while wealthy nations offer up endless cycles of sympathy.

Physical closure may never come for those lost in the flood. But by walking hand-in-hand with survivors, we can provide the resources and empathy needed to navigate the uncertainty.

Researchers warn that long-dormant pathogens and ancient antibiotic-resistance genes are slipping into freshwater systems.

Will Nepal secure a successful movement in the future by expunging violence and shifting from a hyper-masculine violent movement to a feminised non-violent movement?

Sometimes protecting a child can be as simple as deciding not to press ‘post’ or ‘share’.

Grandstanding at the United Nations forums seldom changes realities on the ground.

Assistance must go beyond immediate survival to restore safety, dignity, identity and community connections.

A disaster grants rulers extraordinary power and authority, raising the question of whether they will use that power to protect citizens or restrict them.

The average age of federal cabinet ministers and lower house MPs has declined, but key issues for Nepali youth are still not prioritised.

Nepal needs to know how to use the helicopters it already has before the next disaster arrives.

Nepal ended load-shedding through better governance. Then the river came down.

Growth does not tell the full story of the economy unless it considers how it is generated and distributed.

The time has come for the ‘Global North’ to pay its historical ecological debts to Nepal with the reparations it is rightfully owed.

Climate change is not a future risk to our hydropower sector; it is a present and recurring one. The August disaster proved it at a scale no prior monsoon had.

A resilient mountain monitoring system must combine satellite observations, remote sensing, field investigation, weather information, river monitoring and local knowledge.

Nepal can encourage innovation by establishing a practical pathway for locally designed and assembled drones.

Despite losing everything, communities along the Nepal‑Tibet border are helping each other rebuild.