By Paul Brown / Climate News NetworkAug 4, 2017
In remote parts of India and Nepal, female entrepreneurs bring electricity to their villages. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )
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Bhandari’s pro-democracy campaigning is helping to end the oppressive legacies of a monarchy that lasted 240 years in the country she now heads. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )
By Kieran Cooke, Climate News NetworkOct 5, 2015
Nepali farmers are finding that environmentally friendly cultivation methods increase yields -- and also help them adapt to rising temperatures and increasingly erratic rainfall. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )
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By Alex Kirby, Climate News NetworkAug 16, 2015
A British government scientific panel says increasingly frequent heat waves, droughts and other extreme weather threaten more -- and more severe -- global food crises. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )
Alexander Reed Kelly / TruthdigApr 26, 2015
Officials expect the number of people killed and injured in Saturday's 7.9 magnitude earthquake to rise well above 2,500 and 5,000 respectively. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )
Staff / TruthdigApr 23, 2014
But is it too soon? The Discovery network is working on a documentary about the avalanche on Mount Everest on Friday in which 13 Sherpas were killed and three more are missing and presumed dead. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )
Staff / TruthdigApr 20, 2014
Rescuers on Mount Everest found the body of a 13th Nepalese guide Saturday as authorities ruled out hope of finding any more survivors from the deadliest accident ever on the world's highest peak. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )
T.L. Caswell / TruthdigApr 10, 2014
I trekked with the writer, who died last week, only in a Walter Mitty dream, but his service as a guide was valuable. Dig deeper ( 4 Min. Read )
BLANKSep 26, 2013
The Gulf state of Qatar is building sites for the 2022 World Cup soccer tournament on the backs of thousands of Nepalese migrants working in appalling conditions. Dozens died this summer alone, many of them young men felled by heart failure.The Gulf state is building sites for the 2022 World Cup soccer tournament on the backs of thousands of Nepalese migrants. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )
Reese Erlich / TruthdigSep 2, 2010
Nepal’s parliament will attempt to elect a prime minister, the sixth try in almost three months. The impasse reflects the deep antagonism between the Maoists, Leninists, Marxists and socialists who are all fighting for control.Nepal's dysfunctional politics reflects the deep antagonism between the Maoists, Leninists, Marxists and socialists who are all fighting for control. Dig deeper ( 6 Min. Read )
Staff / TruthdigJul 20, 2009
The Nepalese government has stirred up a hornet's nest of criticism with a plan to pay men to marry Nepalese women who were widowed in the country's 10-year civil war. Women's groups are calling the plan humiliating and contrary to human rights. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )
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