In Uttarakhand land sinking, a forewarning
As we build roads and power projects in the fragile mountains, dangerous consequences await us.
As we build roads and power projects in the fragile mountains, dangerous consequences await us.
Institutional leadership is essential in how a country deals with a particular problem.
Dozer owners are altering our landscape in the name of land development for housing or road connectivity.
We need to begin addressing disasters by developing small and affordable measures.
The floods that ravaged Pakistan are a consequence of unanswered global wakeup calls.
The climate change conference must compel large emitters to take radical steps to cut emissions.
The state has never taken food shortages seriously because of the false security net--the Indian market.
We will need more than just enhanced seeds and mechanisation to sustain agriculture.
Bulldozers are flattening the hillocks around Changunarayan by moving huge amounts of soil.
Digging boreholes will not only exhaust groundwater but also upset the local hydrology.
New view towers, built to encourage tourism, don’t fit into the economic worries of the hills.
The government should show how its policy decisions can create changes on the ground in favour of farmers.
Human actions have altered the global atmospheric balance, changing global weather patterns.
It's frightening to even imagine how we'll cope with the problem 10 years from now.
Planners need to realise and accept that the era of megaprojects in Nepal is over.