2025: Forthcoming coauthored Sustainability paper in Nature Communications
2025: Bhattarai contributed to 10 New Insights in Climate Science 2025 Report ahead of COP30, alongside 70 global scientists. Bhattarai contributed in Insight 5: Declining Groundwater Levels. Website. The peer-reviewed paper (preprint is available here) will appear in Cambridge University Press's journal Global Sustainability soon.
2025: Bhattarai co-authored a Global Sustainability assessment paper published in Nature Communications, featured in SciMag
2023: Bhattarai led a paper about impact of warming temperatures on groundwater depletion in India in Science Advances and was interviewed by The New York Times. Media: NYTimes, The Hindu, The Times of India, The Economic Times.
2021: Bhattarai co-authored paper in Science Advances featured by CNN, AAAS, NPR, Earther, and more.
2020: Bhattarai co-authored food-energy-water-carbon next paper in Nature Communications was among the Top 50 Earth, Environmental, and Planetary Sciences Articles in the year. Media: SciMag, Phys.org, EurekaAlert
2017-2019: Declining recharge in the western US under future climate (Geophysical Research Letters), Deforestation in Brazil (Conservation Letters), warming effects if deforestation (Environmental Research Letters) featured by several media : phys.org, Scientific American, Newsroom, Nature Climate Change; Mongabay, phys.org, eurekalert, AAAS, etc.