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Inspiring rammed earth hospital brings affordable care to rural Nepal

Inhabitat - Innovation

An inspiring beacon of humanitarian architecture has arrived to one of the poorest and most remote regions of Nepal — the new Bayalpata Hospital in Accham.

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Seeking clarity

Envirotec Magazine

and NO2 pollution, with fine particles seeming to be an affliction of the world’s poorer regions especially, while NO2 is a problem for city dwellers everywhere. In China, the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region saw a 25% reduction in their annual average PM2.5 Standout findings this year include a clearer picture of PM2.5

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Water irrigation reservoir and spa in Nepal will harness the power of fog

AGreenLiving

Architecture for the Ilam District of Eastern Nepal proposes a fog-harvesting structure to help conserve the area’s water and natural environment. The region is known for its many tea plantations, a subtropical climate, a range of different altitudes and high humidity, all of which combine to create the perfect conditions for fog formation.

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WMO warns economic losses from Asian extreme weather are 'rocketing'

Business Green

The World Meteorological Organisation (WMO) has today warned that economic losses resulting from extreme weather are rocketing across the Asian continent, as glacier retreat starts to pose a growing threat to water security across large parts of the region. As a percentage of the country's GDP, the highest cost is estimated for Nepal, at 1.9

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Himalayan glacier breaks off in India, causing a deadly avalanche

AGreenLiving

local time, when part of the Nanda Devi glacier broke away from a fragile area of Uttarakhand, the northern India state that borders China and Nepal. The region is known to be prone to landslides and flooding , a situation that has caused environmentalists to warn against development there. The disaster started at about 10:45 a.m.

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Event - Ecocity World Summit 2019

Green Market Oracle

At this summit Mayor Kennedy Stewart and a host of local, regional and global experts will come together to build the bridge to socially just and ecologically sustainable cities. Chiribabu Mahajan, Mayor of Lalitpur Metropolitan City, Kathmandu Valley, Nepal Kennedy Stewart, Mayor, City of Vancouver, Canada.

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Warm ice in Mount Everest’s glaciers makes them more sensitive to climate change – new research

Unsustainable

Katie Miles , Aberystwyth University In 2017 and 2018, our EverDrill research team travelled to Nepal, to measure ice temperatures ( using a converted pressure washer ) on the Khumbu Glacier. C warming across High Mountain Asia and a significant loss of ice mass across the region. For example, a global temperature rise of +1.5°C