Environment

Search and rescue operations for the missing passengers and the two buses swept off the major highway connecting the Capital into Trishuli river by mudslides on Friday morning has been ineffective in high current river swollen by monsoon rains.

At least 110 people have died in landslides, floods and lightning strikes since mid-June when monsoon rains started.

Monsoon creates havoc in eastern and central Nepal, triggering flash floods and land slides, and inundating hundreds of acres of Land in the plains.

Ang Sarki Sherpa, who has been working as icefall doctor for two decades, has witnessed the changes of climate change in Everest. Route opening through the mountain is becoming increasingly dangerous; this time they succeeded only in the third attempt.

Officials respond to public outcry, aiming to restore the iconic stone landmark.

The Supreme Court of Nepal ordered authorities to impose a limit on the number of climbing permits in the peaks of Himalayas, urging the government to ban the use of helicopters from the base camp to the peak.

Forest fires have been ravaging Nepal and are occurring in increasingly alarming scale each year. Yet the government, lacking resources, manpower and empathy, has failed to devise a strategy to contain them leaving communities defenseless.

While conservation efforts have focused on increasing tiger population, human life near conservation zones, who have been living in terror of the wild cats, have been constantly undermined.