Kyle Knight: Nepal's Caterpillar Fungus Harvest Impacts Environment
The seasonal influx of migrant harvesters into Nepal's Himalaya Mountains seeking a caterpillar fungus used as a traditional medicine and believed to have aphrodisiac properties is causing environmental damage along the rural border with Tibet. full story
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Plane with foreign tourists crashes in Nepal
KATMANDU, Nepal (AP) -- Nepal police say a small plane with foreign tourists has crashed while attempting to land at a mountain airstrip in northern Nepal....
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Plane with foreign tourists crashes in Nepal
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Nepal plane crash injures 21, including 9 Japanese
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