Kathmandu Valley had the worst air quality of any city in the world on Monday afternoon, according to Swiss-based air quality tracker IQ Air. Air Quality Index ... Forest fires are common in Nepal in ...

Pollution levels are spiking in Nepal's capital Kathmandu, leaving its residents with air quality worse than any other city in the world.

A dry winter is intensifying wildfires in Nepal, experts said Wednesday, as the capital Kathmandu continued ... of dry fuel in the forest, so even a small fire can get uncontrollable," Prakash ...

There is abundance of dry fuel in the forest, so even a small fire can get uncontrollable ... Air quality in the capital Kathmandu has been ranked the worst in the world for over a week, according ...

Nepal’s Kathmandu has been covered by a toxic haze ... advanced equipment and adequate personnel to effectively control forest fires. “All state mechanisms are involved in fire management, but ...

Experts say that widespread wildfires, fuelled by an exceptionally dry winter and stagnant atmospheric conditions, have caused the thick and throat-burning smog to cover the Kathmandu valley.

Kathmandu: As Nepal chokes due to several incidents of forest fire, the number of burn cases has risen alarmingly ... with PM2.5 levels soaring to hazardous levels. The Air Quality Index (AQI) notched ...