Mount Everest is a 'fecal time bomb.' Here's one man's idea for handling 14 tonnes of human waste

Every year, some 1200 people make a mad dash for the summit of Mount Everest during the climbing season that begins in May - taking on the arduous, often congested route to the world's highest peak that most will not complete and some will not survive.Working against them: temperatures far below zero, altitude sickness with effects that range from disorientation to death, and the ever-present threat of frostbite. More than 200 corpses of ill-fated climbers line the mountain's slopes, a constant reminder of those climbers' fatal missteps.

Three-member taskforce formed to investigate into Jumla clash

A three-member taskforce has been formed to look into a clash erupted between the police and local people at the Karnali Academy of Health Sciences in Jumla on July 19 when the police tried to airlift then protesting Dr Gobinda KC to Kathmandu. Many people were injured in the conflict. 

NEA to cut off supply for 4 days in industrial areas

Nepal Electricity Authority (NEA) has informed about the electricity supply cut off at various industrial places for four days as it is upgrading the international transmission line. Issuing a notice, the electricity supply from the transmission line along the Dhalkewar-Mujjafarpur 400 KV would be cut off from August 13 till August 16. NEA has suggested that the supply from this transmission line would increase up to 220 KV from 132 KV after the upgrading.

Haphazard digging of roads poses risk of landslides, soil erosion in Myagdi

Haphazard digging of the roads in the district has posed risk of landslides and soil erosion. Many roads have been dug by using excavators and backhoe loaders without taking environmental and technical aspects into account, said district soil conservation officer Diwakar Poudel. "As a result, they will increase risk of landslides and soil erosion." 

Parker Solar Probe: Nasa launches mission to 'touch the Sun'

US space agency Nasa has launched its mission to send a satellite closer to the Sun than any before.The Parker Solar Probe rocket lifted off from Cape Canaveral, Florida. The probe is set to become the fastest-moving manmade object in history. Its data promises to crack longstanding mysteries about the Sun's behaviour. It is the first space craft to be named after a living person - astrophysicist Eugene Parker, 91, who first described solar wind in 1958.

Penguin Island's penguins in battle for survival against climate change, human threats

They're small, cute and lure about 130,000 visitors to their island every year.But the little penguin population that gives WA's Penguin Island its name is in danger on several fronts. The 12-hectare island is just 300 metres off the coast of Rockingham, in Perth's south, and home to about 1000 little penguins, the largest colony that far west in the world.