February 18, 2024 07:47 am
KATHMANDU, Feb 18: Experts during a panel discussion organized at the World Social Forum on Saturday emphasized the importance of integrating anticipatory disaster risk reduction (DRR) and climate change adaptation (CCA) approaches with climate science to protect more lives from climatic disasters.
January 8, 2024 09:00 am
The entire community has to unite in order to confront the pressing global problem of climate change and strive towards sustainable solutions for a brighter future. International collaboration is very important in order to combat climate change. This article emphasizes the need for group effort in a fresh way and draws attention to how urgent the situation is.
October 5, 2023 10:40 am
After a summer of record-smashing heat, warming somehow got even worse in September as Earth set a new mark for how far above normal temperatures were, the European climate agency reported Thursday.
September 14, 2023 09:45 am
KATHMANDU, Sept 14: Nepali Congress (NC) Central Working Committee member Dr Arzu Rana Deuba has said Nepali women have been mostly affected by the impacts of climate change. She argued that the access of Nepali women to the latest technology should be increased to overcome such a situation.
January 16, 2023 15:30 pm
There are many factors that have aided in helping rectify the damage caused by us to the environment, and these factors include initiatives taken by countries to help prevent further damage to the climate and environment.
November 18, 2021 14:00 pm
KATHMANDU, Nov 18: According to the Department of Hydrology and Meteorology, the partial effect of the low pressure area formed in the Arabian Sea has changed the weather in Nepal.
November 2, 2021 09:06 am
GLASGOW, Nov 2: Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba has urged world leaders to recognize the specific climate vulnerability of the high Mountains and accord high priority to the mountain agenda in all climate-related negotiations. "Keeping the global temperature below 1.5° C is vital for mountain people. It is an issue of our survival," he said.
November 1, 2021 08:20 am
SCOTLAND, Nov 1: Leading a high-level Nepali delegation to the World Leaders' Summit of the 26th Conference of Parties (COP26) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) to be held in Glasgow on November 1 and 2, Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba has arrived in Scotland on Sunday evening.
November 1, 2021 07:57 am
ROME, Nov 1: Leaders of the Group of 20 major economies agreed on a final statement on Sunday that urged "meaningful and effective" action to limit global warming, but angering climate activists by offering few concrete commitments.
July 15, 2019 01:30 am
Nepali migrant workers who work in the open field of hot desert like climate in the Gulf are among the most affected by climate change. Climate change acts like a double-edged sword for them
May 3, 2019 08:26 am
KATHMANDU, May 3: Yeti Airlines has claimed to have become the first airline in Nepal, and most probably South Asia, to successfully reduce and offset its Greenhouse Gas (GHG) emissions of 2018, replicating the United Nation’s ‘Greening the Blue’ approach to climate neutrality.
May 2, 2019 15:00 pm
LONDON, May 2: The U.K. should effectively eliminate greenhouse gas emissions by 2050 by rapidly adopting policies that will change everything from the way people heat their homes to what they eat, an independent committee that advises the British government on climate change recommended Thursday.
April 20, 2019 11:20 am
LONDON, April 20: Climate protesters are once again trying to shut down parts of London to urge residents to do more to protect the Earth from rising temperatures.
April 12, 2019 15:27 pm
OSLO, April 12: When Norway’s largest political party decided that the Lofoten Islands in the north should not be opened up to oil exploration, a chill ran down the spine of the energy industry.
April 5, 2019 04:00 am
KATHMANDU, April 5: The Meteorological Forecasting Division (MFD) has said that the weather will partially change in the eastern and central regions including the western hilly region on Friday.
March 1, 2019 05:30 am
KATHMANDU, Mar 1: The winter rain and snowfall that started from Tuesday night ended Thursday. However, the western and eastern hills will be partially cloudy till Friday and Saturday, according to the Department of Hydrology and Meteorology (DoHM).
January 11, 2019 08:36 am
KATHMANDU, Jan 11: The government in partnership with the UNDP has developed a new tool to identify and track spending on agricultural activities for promoting farmers’ resilience to climate change impacts and to contribute to reducing carbon emissions.
January 7, 2019 18:00 pm
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December 16, 2018 11:15 am
KATOWICE, Dec 16: After two weeks of bruising negotiations, officials from almost 200 countries agreed Saturday on universal, transparent rules that will govern efforts to cut emissions and curb global warming.
December 2, 2018 13:18 pm
BUENOS AIRES, Dec 2: Leaders of the world’s top economies agreed Saturday to repair the global trading system as they closed a Group of 20 summit that saw the Trump administration at odds with many allies over the Paris accord on climate change and issues like migration.
December 1, 2018 10:45 am
BUENOS AIRES, Dec 1: Divisions among the world leading economies emerged from the moment their leaders gathered Friday in Argentina: Donald Trump struck his own deals and angered allies, and the leaders of Russia and Saudi Arabia bonded amid criticism from European powers.
November 22, 2018 15:24 pm
GENEVA, Nov 22: The U.N.’s weather organization says greenhouse gas levels in the atmosphere climbed to a new record level last year, warning that “the window of opportunity” to act against climate change is nearly closed.
October 29, 2018 01:00 am
The strategic investment funds that have successfully mobilized private capital are structured much like private investment organizations
October 16, 2018 00:05 am
Economic losses from climate-related disasters surged to $2.25 trillion over the past two decades, an increase of more than 150 percent compared to the previous 20-year period, according to the UN.
September 17, 2018 00:05 am
Taken urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts
August 29, 2018 14:00 pm
Bumblebees acquire a taste for food laced with a pesticide known to harm them, according to a study suggesting the chemicals pose an even greater threat to pollinators than previously thought.
August 2, 2018 12:30 pm
MIAMI, Aug 2: Planet-warming greenhouse gases surged to new highs as abnormally hot temperatures swept the globe and ice melted at record levels in the Arctic last year due to climate change, a major U.S. report said Wednesday.
July 29, 2018 11:00 am
Time is running out for the tropics: Extinction of hundreds of species due to deforestation, over-fishing and climate change is 'imminent' unless we act NOW, new research warns.
July 28, 2018 11:00 am
The narrative behind the viral photo of a polar bear starving, reportedly thanks to climate change, has been called into question by the National Geographic photographer who took it in the first place.
July 13, 2018 14:04 pm
Climate change has helped melt nearly a fifth of Colombia's mountaintop glacier cover in just seven years, the government said Thursday.
July 8, 2018 01:30 am
We need to study how collective action in community-managed forests impacts measures of forest quality
July 7, 2018 10:25 am
July 7: Future global warming may eventually be twice as warm as projected by climate models and sea levels may rise six metres or more even if the world meets the 2°C target, according to an international team of researchers from 17 countries.
July 1, 2018 10:17 am
Forests, one of the most dominate ecosystems on Earth, harbor significant biodiversity. Scientists have become increasingly interested in how this diversity is enhanced by the sheltering microclimates produced by trees.
June 30, 2018 10:00 am
Increasingly, climate scientists are calling for climate models to focus more on CO2 levels and less on temperature.
June 3, 2018 07:59 am
KATHMANDU, June 3: The budget allocations relevant for climate change adaptation and gender sensitivity, as segregated in the federal budget, will reach a new high in the next fiscal year.
May 1, 2018 01:31 am
PARIS, MAy 1: The world must redouble efforts to halt global warming before it is too late, the UN's climate chief said Monday as nearly 200 nations kicked off talks in Bonn.
April 29, 2018 13:44 pm
KATHMANDU, April 29: A study by Nepal Forum of Environmental Journalist (NEFEJ) shows Republica and its sister publication, Nagarik of prioritizing issues regarding environment.
April 3, 2018 11:13 am
LONDON, April 3: India is among the countries which are at the greatest risk of food insecurity due to weather extremes caused by climate change, a global study suggests.
April 3, 2018 09:56 am
The earth, home to about 8.7 million different species of living creatures and provider of factors such as air, water and soil that keep these species alive, is under crisis.
March 25, 2018 07:50 am
KATHMANDU, March 25: The government has designated Rs 393.4 billion in the budget allocation for the current fiscal year as 'climate-relevant according to the budget red book. But this whopping budget for climate resilient spending is said to be not realistic.
March 24, 2018 11:07 am
The global climate is changing, threatening, and causing risk to agricultural production system. It has imbalanced the world’s food security system.
March 16, 2018 11:42 am
Archaeologists have uncovered new evidence that indicate that early humans were behaving more sophisticatedly, even involved in trading around 100,000 years earlier than previously thought. Experts also believe that dramatic climatic shifts in East Africa may have driven early humans to make rapid advances in developing tools and trade networks.
February 27, 2018 11:38 am
Feb 27: Climate change is likely to have a devastating impact on king penguins if greenhouse gas emissions continue at their present rate, scientists have warned.
February 17, 2018 09:22 am
KATHMANDU, Feb 17: Engagement of private sector in promoting climate smart agriculture can be beneficial for both farmers and private sector if the results of a pilot program for climate resilient agriculture are something to go by.
February 7, 2018 01:59 am
KATHMANDU, Feb 6: Nepal has been elected as the chair of the Experts' Committee of Least Developed Countries under the climate change convention.
February 4, 2018 09:04 am
The country experienced one of the most intense rainfalls which led to flooding in the monsoon season this year. 37 out of 75 districts of our country were severely affected by the flooding. It consumed the life of 143 innocent people and many other livestock and wild animals. 91,400 families had been displaced from their home. Communities from different villages of the tarai belt remained inaccessible by road.
January 28, 2018 12:45 pm
WASHINGTON, Jan 28: President Donald Trump says he is skeptical about climate change, but says he might sign the United States back up to the Paris climate agreement.
January 3, 2018 01:00 am
Underdeveloped and highly vulnerable countries like Nepal will be the first to suffer if Paris Agreement fails to materialize.
December 25, 2017 00:30 am
Countries should ease up on their current, inefficient climate policies and instead increase spending on green R&D
November 17, 2017 19:29 pm
Bonn, (Germany), Nov 17: Minister for Population and Environment Mithila Chaudhary has said that Nepal will embrace the concept adopted by the G 77China and the Least Developed Countries (LDCs) on the climate change and its impact.