KATMANDU, Nepal -- More than 2,000 people, mostly students wearing their school uniforms, gathered in Nepal's capital on Thursday in a bid to set a world record for the largest tree hug. Parliament ...

For all its natural attributes, Nepal is considered a country that provides a template for what not to do, ecologically. Officials from neighbouring states will quietly admit to looking at Nepal in ...

Students in Pokhreni Secondary School in Sundarijal prepare to plant a sapling in Kathmandu. A unique ‘tree twinning’ project between British and Nepali schools has shown how trans-continental ...

KATHMANDU, Nepal (AP) — More than 200 people rallied in Nepal's capital Thursday to protest government plans to cut down about 2,000 trees to widen a key road that circles the city. The protesters ...

A Dutch tourist who survived a tiger attack in the jungles of southwestern Nepal over the weekend by climbing a tree said Monday that he's lucky to be alive and will now have a story to tell when he ...

Put women in charge of cultivating forests and the trees grow stronger. That's the takeaway from a pioneering 30-year scheme that has elevated women to the top of Nepal's community forests - and paved ...

CANOPY COVER: Nepal's midhills have seen the greatest increase in forest cover over the past 25 years. Outmigration from villages and the success of community forests like this one in Chitlang of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A Nepalese student hugs a tree during a mass tree hugging on the World Environment Day on the outskirts of Katmandu, Nepal, ...

An activist hugs a tree during a protest against government plans to cut down trees to widen a key road that circles the city in Kathmandu, Nepal, Thursday, Aug. 29, 2019. More than 200 people ...