Kopan Monastery Kopan Monastery, a Tibetan Buddhist retreat perched atop a hill, is one of the ... home to the sacred Bodhi tree, and its image is featured on Nepal’s 100-rupee note.

Because of his track record, he enjoyed an almost godlike status in India, but Corbett had grown up poor in the northern hill country not far from Nepal ... staked out in a tree, waiting for ...

Will you help the BMC's Access & Conservation trust raise vital funds for a new, two-year Apprentice Ranger training role focussed on footpath repair in the beautiful Eryri National Park?

Youth, the unforgettable years, when one swam every stream, fought every fight and swore to climb every mountain. It was in those years that I did my mountainee ...

Ram Raj Dhakal, 22, jolts awake to an alert on his phone. A wild elephant has strayed into a village near Thakurdwara, on the ...

By Mongabay.com In the late 1970s, Nepal launched a reforestation project to restore its massively deforested lands in the ...

“But there will surely be another tree that takes its place one day.” Sam Hill is a contributing parks editor at SFGATE, covering national parks in the Pacific Northwest. Born and raised in ...

Rekha is one of thousands of female sex workers in Nepal. These women are at the center of the complex reality of prostitution in Nepal as the country debates the decriminalization of sex work and ...

There are two distinct aspects of the recent, chaotic, disturbing and increasingly self-immolating life of Tyreek Hill. Some of these aspects are not Hill's fault. Many of them are. Many of them ...

Martin Babarik The Wild Pear from Bošáca, Slovakia, is a 150-year-old tree that grew from a stray seed on Lysica Hill. It stands in a region known for its rich fruit-growing and is a beloved ...

In each experiment, tree species were planted in blocks, creating a mosaic of forest patches of the same age and species. Some experiments were established up to 60 years ago. Tree heights were ...