🇳🇵Nepal

Nepal's oldest public bus operator, founded in 1962 as a cooperative, has put around 40 electric buses on Kathmandu Valley roads and now runs 28 of them as a night service.

A small US nonprofit building smokeless brick-and-steel cookstoves with rural Nepali families to replace smoky open fires.

Cyclists who met monthly at Basantapur Durbar Square kept pushing until Lalitpur painted the valley's first bike lane — and the counts went up.

Making the fire travel a zigzag path instead of a straight line through a brick kiln burns the coal more completely — and takes a startling bite out of the smoke over Kathmandu.