Address the unique needs of women amid crisis
Urgent government action is needed to address women’s health, safety and dignity during this critical time.
Urgent government action is needed to address women’s health, safety and dignity during this critical time.
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.
Modernised telemetry, cross-border data sharing and evacuation laws are essential to protect vulnerable communities.
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.
Nepal has contributed little to global warming but is bearing its devastating consequences.
DNA testing can’t undo the flood. But it can help the affected families bid farewell to those they lost.
Resilience is less about defending against a known threat and more about preparing for the unknown.
Counselling should extend beyond the worst-affected districts to places where affected people have relocated or come from.
When the flood washed away the roads, helicopters were the only way out. So why were politicians and camera crews hogging them?
Is it unreasonable to ask our neighbours to engage in meaningful climate action through a regional legal arrangement?
Until road connectivity is restored, the state cannot effectively reach the people it is striving to save.
Under international law, a state does not automatically become responsible just because something goes wrong within its national jurisdiction.
Nepal, India and China share a mountain ecosystem and face increasing effects of climate change.
The right to basic and emergency health services, clean water and sanitation is non-negotiable in disasters.