Isha Amatya couldn't breathe anymore. So the 23-year-old did what all the cool kids in this rugged Himalayan capital do: She bought a pile of face masks and tricked them out with hearts, rock band ...

Widespread violations revealed by emission checks show that vehicular pollution has become the norm in Kathmandu, making ...

The air quality on Friday further deteriorated in Napal’s Kathmandu and reached alarming levels with the Air Quality Index (AQI) crossing the 301 mark to enter the 'hazardous' category, according to a ...

Kathmandu, June 17 (EFE).- Air pollution has become the leading risk factor for death and disability in Nepal, surpassing malnutrition and tobacco, according to a new World Bank report. Released on ...

In the past eight months of this year, 791 people have died in Nepal from Covid-19. In the whole of 2019, air pollution directly killed 42,100 people in the country. Poor air quality in cities and ...

No rainfall and forest fires have left Kathmandu covered in a toxic haze of dust and smokeNavesh Chitrakar/REUTERS Nepal's Kathmandu has been covered by a toxic haze of dust and smoke for multiple ...

Kathmandu [Nepal], April 7 (ANI): As the drone takes off, the skyline of Kathmandu is shrouded in a thick layer of polluted haze that has been lingering for weeks. Visibility has also dropped over the ...

The Air Quality Life Index, 2023 report has found that air pollution has been shortening lives by 6.8 years in nine districts with the highest concentration of particulate pollution. Particularly, the ...

The annual update of the Air Quality Life Index (AQLI) released in June revealed that the current air pollution level in Nepal shortens the life of an average Nepali by 4.1 years. The release of the ...

This is what emerges from the latest WHO report. With 9 thousand deaths per year, poor air quality is the more deadly than Maoist revolution of 10 years ago. At least 36 Nepalese every 100 die from ...

KATHMANDU – Nepal has ordered schools to close for four days after air pollution climbed to hazardous levels, forcing millions of students to stay home across the country. Nepal, with a population of ...