The cooperative transport company, however, says it took time to set up a multi-stakeholder committee and prepare bidding documents.

The adverse effects of climate change are already visible in various sectors across the country, scientists say.

Speeding and reckless driving through sanctuaries continue to kill protected animals.

Environmentalists say the government should be proactive in talking about the effects of climate change and how vulnerable Nepal is as a country.

With monsoon yet to retreat, Nepal will receive rainfall until the first week of October, predicts weather office.

The hydel projects have failed to maintain a minimum 10 percent of water in the dry season to maintain the aquatic life and their habitat.

In Kathmandu, hundreds of students gathered to take part in the global call for action against climate change, asking for climate justice and an end to an era of fossil fuels.

The bird, enlisted on IUCN’s red list of threatened species, started to disappear in the area due to heavy encroachment of wetland areas, its major habitat.

Financial support to meet upfront investment, more charging stations and mechanisms to make them profitable are must to make green efforts sustainable.

Food competition, habitat fragmentation, drying up of wetlands and water resources and decrease in grassland led a sudden rise in rhino deaths, study shows

Loss of lives, property, livestock, and infrastructure continues to amount to millions of rupees, but the efforts to minimise the destruction remain inadequate and inefficient.

In Nepal, one is restricted to consume, import, store, sell and distribute polythene bags, but there are no bans on manufacturers. They are still making more plastic.

Pointing at the dengue outbreaks in different parts of the country, experts say that the government needs to take immediate measures.

As more trees and open spaces disappear in the name of urbanisation in the Kathmandu Valley, unwelcome—and unhealthy—changes are expected to arise.

Territorial clashes among the big cats with an increase in their population is leading to their wandering outside the parks

Consumers and waste management companies say smaller sized bottles will add to plastic pollution in Nepal. Coke defends its packaging, calling them recyclable.

Live electricity wires and stray dogs are major threats for sarus cranes.

Local government to ban the use of plastics below 30 microns and beverages bottled in plastic

Protesters say they were left with no option but to visit Kathmandu to draw the central government’s attention to unchecked degradation of the range.

Rhinos had been found abandoning habitats in the eastern part of the park and migrating to the west where there are many community forests.