The Kathmandu Valley in South Asia is considered as one of the global "hot spots" in terms of urban air pollution. It is facing severe air quality problems as a result of rapid urbanization and land use change, socioeconomic transformation and high population growth.

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Large earthquakes are thought to release strain on previously locked faults. However, the details of how earthquakes are initiated, grow and terminate in relation to pre-seismically locked and creeping patches is unclear. The 2015 Mw 7.8 Gorkha, Nepal earthquake occurred close to Kathmandu in a region where the prior pattern of fault locking is well documented. Here we analyse this event using seismological records measured at teleseismic distances and Synthetic Aperture Radar imagery.

In 2007, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) predicted that global mean temperature will increase by between 1.0 and 6.5 degrees Centigrade within the next 90 years.

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Kathmandu, June 1: The death toll from the devastating April 25 earthquake and subsequent powerful aftershocks has reached 8,699 as per the latest update made available by the Central Police News R

The number of people killed in Nepal by two major earthquakes has surpassed 8,500, making the disaster the deadliest to hit the Himalayan country on record, as rescuers on Sunday searched for dozen

The death toll from the April 25 quake in Nepal on Sunday topped 8,500, making the temblor the deadliest of all times for the Himalayan nation, triggering as many as 240 aftershocks and injuring ar

The number of people killed in Nepal by two major earthquakes has surpassed 8,500, making the disaster the deadliest to hit the Himalayan country on record.

A major earthquake has struck eastern Nepal, near Mount Everest, two weeks after more than 8,000 people died in a devastating quake.

काठमांडू। नेपाल-भारत समेत दक्षिण एशिया में मंगलवार को भूकंप के तेज झटके महसूस किए गए। 25 अप्रैल को आए भूकंप की त्रासदी से उबरने की कोशिश कर रहा नेपाल भी इन झटकों से हिल उठा। नेपाल में अब तक 28 लोगो

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