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BhairahawaJul 2026
Say No to smoke in Kitchen
"Use of modern technology in cooking will help to reduce significant amount of air pollution in Nepali kitchen."
In the past two to three decades Nepalese kitchen has evolved a lot and so does the cooking technology too. People used to cook on traditional stove that requires a lot of firewood
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PokharaJul 2026
Rain resets Pokhara's sky
"Rain helps Pokhara to unwind its green hills, white mountains and blue skies."
Pokhara receives an annual rainfall of 3,300 mm and 3,900 mm making it the wettest city of Nepal. Pokhara, known for the lakes like Phewa, Begnas and the clear and close view of mo
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BhairahawaJul 2026
Forest burnt, breath choked
"The very same forest that gives us air to breathe when set into fire can make adverse effect on our respiratory tract."
Night had already fallen when this forest was set into fire, flames crawling through dry brush, smoke rolling into the dark before anyone could stop it. It looks small here, almost
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KathmanduJul 2026
Move ahead, smoke behind
"A blue public bus chokes out thick black diesel smoke on a Kathmandu street, while pedestrians and bikers breathe it in unnoticed."
This is an ordinary street in Kathmandu Valley motorbikes, taxis waiting at the signal. And then this old blue public bus pulls away, trailing a cloud of black smoke thick enough t
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BhairahawaJul 2026
Smoke Taught Purna to See
"A roadside burning of plastic, years of routine smoke, and one conversation that finally made Purna Bahadur Chettri look up."
Purna Bahadur Chettri who has been living in Butwal for 58 years was seen burning plastic wrappers, bottles, scraps of household waste in an empty plot near his road because it's e
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BhairahawaJul 2026
Simple to learn, hard to do
"Inside the premise of Butwal Multiple Campus, we see smoke from burning fallen leaves"
One of the biggest affiliated colleges of Tribhuvan University from western Nepal, Butwal Multiple Campus where around 5000 students study in undergraduate and graduate level was f
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BhairahawaJul 2026
Golden sky, Pink roads
"The displacement of old vehicles by electric vehicles ensures the golden sunset for the future."
Electric vehicles have been popular in Nepal recently after 2020 especially in the sector of four wheeler private cars and taxis. Nepal ranks second globally in electric vehicle ad
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BhairahawaJun 2026
City In Between the Greens
"Only Planned urbanization can make our cities breathable."
The image taken from Nuwakot, Palpa, a viewpoint for watching the plain beauty of Butwal city and land around it shows that Butwal is surrounded by greenery. The city hasn’t lost i
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BhairahawaJun 2026
Walk without good breath.
"People from the low income status who cannot afford private vehicles for daily commutes are compelled to breathe polluted air in the footpaths."
For daily commutes most of the people move from one place to another on foot. While we are talking about electric vehicles for public transportation, the most fundamental mode of t
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BhairahawaJun 2026
Clean outside, Smoke Inside
"In the act of making the environment around us more clean, we are keeping our health at great risk."
Mainly in the Terai region of Nepal, during the summers there are high risks of reptiles like snakes, lizards etc. To prevent this people try to keep the environment as clean and o
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ButwalMay 2026
Unnoticed yet Impactful
"Sometimes the things that doesn't get our eyesight can have a meaningful impact we choose to ignore."
Inside the hotel premises, where we had our workshop about clean air and air pollution, I noticed that the chimney of the kitchen is placed in very strategic location. The gases li
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