When 38-year-old Pradeep Kumar Bishwokarma was growing up in Ramgadhawa, a neighborhood in southern Nepal’s industrial town of Birgunj, he would jump into the Sirsiya River to beat the summer heat as ...

Nepal’s most sacred river is also its most polluted. In the capital, Kathmandu, raw sewage is dumped directly into the Bagmati River, and heaps of garbage are tossed in from along the banks.

Conservationists attribute the decline to human encroachment, pollution of rivers and lakes, shrinking wetlands and ...

India, Oct. 28 -- As the setting sun glows over the rivers and ponds of North India and Nepal, millions of devotees fold their hands in reverence to the life-giving Sun God. The chants of "Jai Surya ...

Nepal’s per-capita energy consumption (cooking, transport, and industrial use) is roughly 520 kilograms of oil equivalent per year, about one-fifth of the global average. More revealing than the low ...

Kathmandu, Feb. 2 -- Blue Water Intelligence (BWI) has marked the operational deployment of its hydrological forecasting and early warning services under the HydroNepal Project at an event in ...

Kathmandu, Jan. 29 -- River conservation activist Megh Ale has begun a relay hunger strike at Maitighar Mandala, demanding that river rights, protection and constitutional obligations be ensured in ...