Namche Bazaar's colourful rooftops spread across terraced hillsides in Nepal's Everest region, with the snow-capped peak of Mount Thamserku towering above the town under a clear blue sky.Image source, Didier Marti
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Construction of tourism and housing facilities has surged in parts of Nepal and India's Uttarakhand

ByNavin Singh KhadkaEnvironmental correspondent, BBC World Service
  • Published22 minutes ago

At least 300,000 people in parts of the Himalayan region could now be living in the path of potential disasters, a new study suggests.

Researchers found that the amount of built-up land in high-risk zones in northern Nepal, parts of south-eastern Tibet and a corner of India's Uttarakhand had grown by about 45% between 2016 and 2023.