Bindu Nagarkoti pulls a blanket over her 10-month-old baby and gets ready for an afternoon full of household chores and agricultural work. The 7.8 magnitude Nepal earthquake last year hit her village hard, destroying homes and drastically cutting access to...
In a hilltop village in Nagarkot, Nepal, 24-year-old Prapti Tamang looks at the scattered remains of her old home – just piles of rocks and dirt. One year ago, when a devastating 7.8 magnitude earthquake shook Nepal, Tamang’s house collapsed...
This video from UNICEF does a good job showing just how difficult the road conditions are in Nepal, and how brave truck drivers are a key node in the humanitarian relief supply chain. ...
Sometimes numbers can tell a deeper story. Here are some key facts and figures from the Nepal Earthquakes. All the data comes from the UN Office for the coordination of Humanitarian Affairs and are accurate as of mid-May 2015. The...
A large earthquake and deadly earthquake rocked Nepal again today. The death toll, now at 37, has been climbing throughout the day. This time, the epicenter was about 50 miles east of Katmandu, not far from Mount Everest. From BBC:...
In 2013, I interviewed Jo Scheuer, a United Nations official advising countries on natural disaster risk reduction. He’d been all over the world, surveying places vulnerable to floods, earthquakes and droughts, and I asked him what natural disaster scenario he...
It's been a full five years after war between the Nepalese government and Maoist insurgents ended. So why are people still being killed?