Across Nepal’s Terai, Inner Madhesh and hill regions, temperatures are rising and rainfall patterns are becoming increasingly ...

Dhruba Prasai, a farmer from Sarlahi district in Nepal’s southern plains, says he’s exhausted from lack of sleep. Every year, ...

KATHMANDU — The Khorthali Community Forest User Group in Dolakha, central Nepal, produced 1,189 cubic meters (42,000 cubic feet) of timber in 2025 — roughly 18 standard 40-foot shipping containers in ...

After degraded forests were leased out to local communities to protect and manage 40 years ago, Nepal’s community forestry program has won international praise for restoring the country’s tree cover.

A fire engulfed major parts of Nagarkot's Datadol forest in April 2021. Photo: AMIT MACHAMASI March 2022 was one of the hottest recorded in the Subcontinent. April also saw sweltering conditions in ...

Community forestry groups in Nepal say the government is going beyond its authority to introduce new rules that would impact how they make their livelihood from forests. The groups say the proposed ...

Kathmandu, Nepal's Ministry of Forests and Environment and World Wildlife Fund have inked an agreement to strengthen collaboration on biodiversity conservation and sustainable development across the ...

In Nepal, a recent push to build cable cars to boost tourism in natural beauty spots carries significant environmental costs. A controversial cable car project has been proposed in Mukkumlung, ...

I spent a week in some of southern Nepal’s lushly forested areas, which until recently were barren ravines. Here’s how the transformation happened → In 1978, the country’s leaders adopted a radical ...

GORKHA, Nepal (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - When Krishna Maya Sunar received 10,000 rupees ($91) from a forest protection project in Gorkha in Nepal, it changed her life. That was seven years ago.

Radha Wagle, Nepal’s first woman Joint-Secretary and Chief at the REDD Implementation Centre under the Ministry of Forests and Environment, is working to make the forestry sector more inclusive for ...

KATHMANDU, April 9 (Reuters) - Nepal is battling its worst forest fires in years, officials said on Friday, with smoke wafting across its mountains and souring the air as it settles into the bowl that ...