On Sunday, a 61-year-old woman from Changunarayan Municipality in Bhaktapur district, reached Tribhuvan University Teaching Hospital to get her swollen feet examined. Doctors at the hospital, who attended on her, found that her oxygen saturation levels had declined to 68-70 percent. “Oxygen saturation level under 90 percent could quickly lead to serious deterioration in a patient’s health and oxygen saturation…
KATHMANDU, Dec 28: Climate crisis is a major problem but developing nations such as Nepal are not committed to manage and carry the burden of such global problems. Despite certain political decisions being made in regards to national climate policy and the political parties backing the issue of climate change and environment in their election manifestoes, implementation of national climate…
You may have heard about PM 2.5 mentioned in a recent science or health article, or even on the news as part of coverage of wildfires or other air pollution events. High levels of PM 2.5 can have serious health consequences for you and your family. But what does this term mean, and how is it linked to respiratory disease, heart…
Nepal is one of the South Asian countries hardest hit by the industrial-scale degradation of the environment. Plastic, 99 per cent of which is derived from fossil fuels, is arguably the most conspicuous story of them all. According to the ICIMOD, Nepal generates 2.7 tons of plastic waste daily, polluting the country’s streets, rivers, forests, and even Himalayan trekking routes….
The Himalayas are relatively new mountains, created by the Indian tectonic plate being pushed under the Eurasian plate, causing it to buckle. Earthquakes are caused by a release of the pressure that builds when tectonic plates slip against each other, and so as this plate movement continues, the Himalayan region is very prone to earthquakes. With climate change impacting weather…
मंसिर २५ गते,जनकपुर । ७४ औं मानव अधिकार दिवसको उपलक्ष्यमा कचहरी बहस जनकपुरधाममा समपन्न भएको छ । मानव अधिकार तथा वातावरण अधिकारलाई सुनिश्चित गर्न जनकचौकमा बहसको आयोजना गरिएको थियो। कायापलटको आयोजनामा गरिएको बहसमा मानव अधिकार आयोग प्रमुख मधेश प्रदेशकी मन्जु खतिवडा, जनकपुरधाम उपमहानगरपालिकाका उपमेयर किशोरी साह र जलवायु परिवर्तन न्युनिकरणका अभियन्ता देव नारायण मण्डल वक्ताको रुपमा रहेका थिए भने कायापलटका…
Vision Kayapalat (KAP) envisions a society in which human rights and SDG’s are respected, protected and fulfilled for all. Mission Kayapalat empowers young people to claim and defend their and other rights in society through evidence-based policy advocacy, research and networking and partnership and capacity development programs. Goal To ensure youths & children rights in Nepal.
When Himani (16) experienced COVID-19 three years back, she realized the importance of keeping the nature in balance and protecting it so that the world is livable for humans now and in the future. “The simplest way of explaining climate change to people who may not know about it is to tell them how the temperature has changed in our…
