Nepal chokes on smoke and ash as drought-worsened wildfires rage

DANG, Nepal, April 13 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – In the eight years that Basudev Pokharel has worked as a forest guard, he has rarely seen a fire as huge as the one that raged through his village in western Nepal in March. Hundreds of such fires have been spreading across the country since November, in […]

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