Clean cooking has long been recognised as a cornerstone for mitigating household air pollution and, by extension, reducing ...

Thanks to Jill Dillard, we got a lesson in Nepali cooking. On Tuesday night’s 19 Kids and Counting, the Duggar daughter and her older sister Jana cooked up quite a storm preparing dal bhat — a ...

DAMAK, Nepal, December 14 (UNHCR) - Bhutanese refugees in seven camps in eastern Nepal will start cooking with environmentally friendly bio-briquettes in 2006, as the UN refugee agency cannot afford ...

Growing up amidst lush paddy fields of Bara district, Babita Shrestha felt the most at home gardening with her grandfather. Her parents worked in Hong Kong and Kathmandu, so Babita looked after her ...

JHOR, Nepal (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - With a large cone-shaped bamboo basket strapped to her back, Nirmala Bhandari treks two hours every day from her village to a protected forest in the hills, ...

Russian Mi-17 helicopters fly in LPG cylinders to Syangboche from Phaplu. Photo courtesy: ADAM STERN The import of LPG cylinders has grown 4-fold in the past 10 years. Even remote areas of the country ...