Most displaced families have moved into rented rooms or elsewhere as makeshift shelters become uninhabitable and the government delays resettlement and promised financial assistance.

Near-mystical musings from a scientist who believes we are on the brink of a revolution in understanding ourselves

A first guide to Himalayan voices in Canadian literature

Anything worth remembering came from a person who did not know where she or he was going until arriving.

“It Was Either That Or Die,” by the Haitian-Canadian author Thélyson Orélien, was the hit of the French literary season. Now it has been pulled from the shortlist for a prestigious prize.

When Areena Shrestha arrived in Canada as an international student, she didn't fully understand how uncertain and emotionally exhausting the journey to permanent residency could be.

Keynote, followed by a conversation with Rajeev Balasubramanyam at Haus der Kulturen der Welt (HKW), a pluri-disciplinary institution in Berlin whose work centers around the practices of visual arts, ...

The young government of Nepal, a nation with a tiny carbon footprint, is seeking reparations from the world’s major economies as it bears the brunt of collapsing Himalayan glaciers.

Scientists say global heating was a destabilising factor in collapse of 200,000 sq metre glacier in August

Rising temperatures contributed to the disaster by destabilizing the permafrost and ice around the collapsed rock, scientists concluded.

A US scholar made her name as an expert on Nepal’s cultural heritage – while illicitly buying sacred artefacts and smuggling them out to the United States

Literatures from the Himalayas

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Ripping up bike lanes makes roads less safe for everyone.

A personal reflection on the flood and the precarity of life in Nepal amid climate change and inept government.

No one could have predicted this disaster would happen when it did, but we all knew it would happen one day.

Satellite images show the glacial collapse on the North Face of Langtang was in Nepal itself

With the scale of destruction still being assessed, aid groups say cash donations, instead of physical goods, are the most effective way for the public to help right now.

Kathmandu, 18 March 2026 – Glaciers across the Hindu Kush Himalaya (HKH) are melting at an accelerating rate, with ice loss rates doubling since the year 2000, according to two new landmark reports th...

A wall of water crashed through a Himalayan river valley between Nepal and the Chinese territory of Tibet, the Nepali authorities said. The missing included border officials, port workers and foreign ...

Millions could die because of ideas intellectually and morally equivalent to the ‘lizard people’ conspiracy theory.

Durgalal Shrestha showed Newa-speaking people that it is possible to live with your language