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Kathmandu Metropolitan City. Photo: Sandeep Sen/ THT

KMC enacts environment law to promote cleanliness

Kathmandu Metropolitan City has issued the ‘KMC Environment and Natural Resources Protection Act-2021’, which prohibits any person or organisation from causing pollution contrary to the existing standards in a manner to cause significant adverse impact on public life, human health, and environment.

In this Wednesday, Feb. 17, 2021 file photo, the lakebed of Suesca lagoon sits dry and cracked, in Suesca, Colombia, after years of very little rainfall. Photo: AP/File

UN: Huge changes in society needed to keep nature, Earth OK

Humans are making Earth a broken and increasingly unlivable planet through climate change, biodiversity loss and pollution. So the world must make dramatic changes to society, economics and daily life, a new United Nations report says.

A deposit of hailstones seen after a storm in Firfire, Tanahun, on Monday. Photo: THT

Hailstorm damages crops in Tanahun

Heavy hailstorm coupled with rain destroyed crops in various wards of Suklagandaki Municipality, Tanahun, Monday evening.

Climate activists stand next to a giant portrait of French President Emmanuel Macron installed on the ground at Trocadero square in front of the Eiffel tower to mark the fifth anniversary of the 2015 United Nations Paris Agreement on climate change, in Paris, France December 10, 2020. The slogan reads "Paris Agreement in flames, Macron looks away". REUTERS/Benoit Tessier

Ahead of UN climate summit, urgent calls to 'fix the future'

When the Paris Agreement on climate change was finalized after two weeks of fraught negotiations and years of past failures, diplomats hugged and shed tears of joy. They had haggled over verb tenses, cut deals, and in the end, brought 196 countries into the accord.

This illustration provided by Carbon Engineering in October 2018 shows one of the designs of the company's air contactor assemblies to remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. More than a 100 countries — responsible for about two-thirds of the world's heat-trapping gases — have announced plans to cut their greenhouse gas emissions to “net zero" in coming decades to help curb man-made climate change. Photo: Carbon Engineering via AP

EXPLAINER: The real math behind "net zero" carbon emissions

More than 100 countries — responsible for about two-thirds of the world’s heat-trapping gases — have announced plans to cut their greenhouse gas emissions to “net zero” in coming decades to help curb man-made climate change.

Earth is losing ice faster today than in the mid-1990s, study suggests

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A view of the A-68A iceberg from a Royal Air Force reconnaissance plane near South George island, November 18, 2020. Photo: UK Ministry of Defence/Handout via REUTERS/File

2020 ties with 2016 as world's hottest year on record, EU climate change service says

Last year tied with 2016 as the world’s warmest year on record, rounding off the hottest decade globally as the impacts of climate change intensified, the European Union’s Copernicus Climate Change Service said on Friday.

Commuters make their way through heavy smog in New Delhi, India, on October 31, 2016. Photo: Reuters/ File

Urban air quality less improved by COVID lockdowns than first believed

Lockdowns during the first wave of COVID-19 had a much smaller impact on urban air quality than first expected, a study of 11 global cities, from Wuhan to New York, found on Wednesday.

A view of the A-68A iceberg from a Royal Air Force reconnaissance plane near South George island, November 18, 2020. Photo: UK Ministry of Defence/Handout via REUTERS/File

Earth is losing ice faster today than in the mid-1990s, study suggests

Earth’s ice is melting faster today than in the mid-1990s, new research suggests, as climate change nudges global temperatures ever higher.

File - A view of the Lirung Glacier in the Langtang Valley, 60km northwest of Kathmandu, on October 13, 2008. Photo: AFP

‘Two-thirds of Himalayan glaciers could melt’

Kathmandu, February 4 Two-thirds of Himalayan glaciers, the world’s ‘Third Pole’, could melt by 2100 if global emissions are not reduced, scientists warned in a major new study...

Photo courtesy: AP

Not just heat: Climate change signs can be seen all around

WASHINGTON: You don’t just feel the heat of global warming, you can see it in action all around. Some examples of where climate change’s effects have been measured: Glaciers...

A close-up view of the ice-walled canyon at the terminus of the Kaskawulsh Glacier, Canada on 2016. Photo: Jim Best/University of Illinois via AP

Canada glacier melt rerouted in rare case of 'river piracy'

WASHINGTON: Scientists have witnessed the first modern case of what they call "river piracy" and they blame global warming. Most of the water gushing from a large glacier in northwest...

The Stein glacier in Switzerland in 2006. Photo: James Balog/Extreme Ice Survey via AP

Then and now: How glaciers around the world are melting

WASHINGTON: Over the past decade, scientists and photographers keep returning to the world's glaciers, watching them shrink with each visit. Now they want others to see how a warming...

File - A view of the Lirung Glacier in the Langtang Valley, 60km northwest of Kathmandu, on October 13, 2008. Photo: AFP

‘Two-thirds of Himalayan glaciers could melt’

Kathmandu, February 4 Two-thirds of Himalayan glaciers, the world’s ‘Third Pole’, could melt by 2100 if global emissions are not reduced, scientists warned in a major new study...

Photo courtesy: AP

Not just heat: Climate change signs can be seen all around

WASHINGTON: You don’t just feel the heat of global warming, you can see it in action all around. Some examples of where climate change’s effects have been measured: Glaciers...

A close-up view of the ice-walled canyon at the terminus of the Kaskawulsh Glacier, Canada on 2016. Photo: Jim Best/University of Illinois via AP

Canada glacier melt rerouted in rare case of 'river piracy'

WASHINGTON: Scientists have witnessed the first modern case of what they call "river piracy" and they blame global warming. Most of the water gushing from a large glacier in northwest...

The Stein glacier in Switzerland in 2006. Photo: James Balog/Extreme Ice Survey via AP

Then and now: How glaciers around the world are melting

WASHINGTON: Over the past decade, scientists and photographers keep returning to the world's glaciers, watching them shrink with each visit. Now they want others to see how a warming...

A cherry flower blooms on a monitoring tree at Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo Tuesday, March 21, 2017. Photo: AP

Japan cherry blossom season begins, marking start of spring

TOKYO: Cherry blossom season has officially kicked off in Tokyo, marking the beginning of spring for the Japanese. A Japan Meteorological Agency official counted at least five flowers...

This computer image provided by Energy Observer, shows the Energy Observer boat, which is powered solely by renewable energies and hydrogen. Photo: AP

Zero-emission boat prepares for round-the-world odyssey

PARIS: The first self-sufficient boat powered only by emission-free energy will start a six-year trip around the world in the spring. Energy Observer, a former multi-hull race boat...

Sid Bail, president of the Wading River Civic Association, poses outside the defunct Shoreham Nuclear Power Plant in Wading River, New York, on July 12, 2016. Photo: AP

Solar projects can't save the forest for the trees?

WADING RIVER: A green energy project has some environmentalists seeing red. Solar energy ordinarily wins praise from groups that want to cut greenhouse gases, but a proposed solar...

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Road upgradation continues amidst tight security

The government on Saturday deployed a large number of police personnel to continue the road expansion work at Balaju, which has been halted by the Supreme Court for the last four years.

The Election Commission Office at Kantipath in Kathmandu, as captured on Monday, May 8, 2017. Photo: RSS

80 million rupees already spent

The Election Commission has spent Rs 80 million on preparation for mid-term elections which won’t be held as the Supreme Court has invalidated the government’s decision to dissolve the House of Representatives.

File Photo - Seen in the picture is the Election Commission of Nepal, in Kathmandu.

Dahal-Nepal faction of NCP miffed at poll panel's delay

Narayan Kaji Shrestha, spokesperson for the Nepal Communist Party (NCP) led by Pushpa Kamal Dahal and Madhav Kumar Nepal, on Saturday wrote an angry post on his facebook wall against the Election Commission for delaying its decision on the NCP legitimacy row.

FILE: India fast bowler Jasprit Bumrah celebrate after taking a wicket during first test match against England in Chennai. Courtesy: BCCI/Twitter

India's Bumrah to miss final test against England for 'personal reasons'

India will be without pace spearhead Jasprit Bumrah in the final test against England after the 27-year-old was released from the squad for personal reasons, the Indian cricket board (BCCI) said on Saturday.

Ministry of Health and Population (MoHP). Photo Courtesy: MoHP

Nepal COVID-19 Update: 81 new cases, 62 recoveries and two fatalities recorded on Saturday

As of today, the country has witnessed 274,065 cases of the coronavirus infection while 270,325 people have recovered from the disease. Meanwhile, 2,773 COVID-19 fatalities have been confirmed.

FILE - Event signage appears above the red carpet at the 77th annual Golden Globe Awards, on January 5, 2020, in Beverly Hills, California. The 78th annual Golden Globes will be held on Sunday, February 18, 2021.

Globes org says it will recruit Black members after outcry

The organization hosting the Golden Globes says it is developing a plan to recruit Black members after falling under sharp criticism for lacking diverse members.

The Tharuhat-Tharuwan National Front’s special national convention begins in Kailali district, on Saturday, February 27, 2021. Photo: Tekendra Deuba/THT

Tharuhat-Tharuwan National Front's special convention begins in Kailali

The special national convention of the Tharuhat-Tharuwan National Front has begun in Kailali district, on Saturday.

File Photo - Agni Prasad Sapkota during a programme, in Kathmandu. Photo: RSS/File

Understanding would be forged among political parties: Speaker Sapkota

HoR Speaker Agni Prasad Sapkota has expressed confidence that understanding would be forged among the political parties with reinstatement of the dissolved House of Representatives.

The second national convention of Media Action Nepal has selected its new executive committee with Laxman Datt Pant as its chairperson. Photo Courtesy: Media Action Nepal

Media Action Nepal picks Pant as its new chairperson; appoints senior journalists as advisors

The second national convention of Media Action Nepal, a research based media rights advocacy group, has selected Laxman Datt Pant as its new chairperson.

File Photo - Late Tourism Minister Rabindra Adhikari. Photo: THT

Today marks the death anniversary of late Tourism Minister Rabindra Adhikari

Late Minister for Culture, Tourism and Civil Aviation Rabindra Adhikari was remembered today through various programmes in the country.

Novice monks take part in a religious ordination ritual performed by a Rinpoche, a reborn spiritual master of divine provenance, at Seto Gumba Monastery in Bouddhanath, Kathmandu, on Saturday, February 27, 2021. Photo: Skanda Gautam/THT

In Pictures: Ordination ceremony at Seto Gumba Monastery

Novice monks take part in a religious ordination ritual performed by a Rinpoche, a reborn spiritual master of divine provenance, at Seto Gumba Monastery in Bouddhanath, Kathmandu.

File Photo - Pictured here is the Chief Commissioner of the Commission for the Investigation of Abuse of Authority (CIAA), Prem Kumar Rai. Photo Courtesy: CIAA

No one shall be tried based on vengeance and prejudice: CIAA Chief Commissioner

CIAA Chief Commissioner Prem Kumar Rai has expressed commitment to take action against anyone who is found misusing their authority, on the basis of truthful evidence.

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