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The researchers hope to one day find evidence of a settlement in the area.

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Nepal saw a surge in scrub typhus cases after the calamitous 2015 earthquakes that killed nearly 9,000 persons across the country. Three months after the quakes, the BP Koirala Institute of Health ...

Floods and landslides have long been part of the country's natural hazard landscape. Historically, such disasters were ...

The death of a tigress and her four cubs in Karnataka’s Male Mahadeshwara Wildlife Sanctuary has triggered a forest department probe amid strong suspicion of poisoning using a cow carcass.

Clear-felled forests on erosion-prone land are one bad rainstorm away from disaster. But with well-planned, careful harvesting of small forest areas, this risk can be kept at a tolerable level.

How peace underpins forests, food, health and SDGs In conflict-affected or neglected regions, health systems are underfunded, surveillance is inadequate, and public outreach is minimal.