Tag Archives: Environment

• McLeod Ganj finally gets attention from local authorities 27 November 2018 | Lobsang Wangyal This post has 2 comments

  Local authorities are at last taking the initiative to clean up McLeod Ganj. Sanitation Supervisor Surindar Shukla said there are proposals for improvements, including adding recycling. ...

• Dobhi Tibetan settlement affected by flood; CTA yet to reach out 26 September 2018 | Lobsang Wangyal This post has 2 comments

  Life has been disrupted in the nothern Indian states of Himachal Pradesh, Punjab, and Jammu and Kashmir due to incessant rainfall over the past few days. ...

• Buddhism and ecologically-sustainable living 22 June 2018 | Paul Grogan This post has no comments yet

  Tibetan Buddhism provides a very powerful over-arching framework for us to address the ecological crisis and achieve more sustainable living for our society. ...

• Trump administration shuts down NASA’s $10-million carbon monitoring program while CO2 levels soar 14 May 2018 | Jean-Pierre Chigne This post has no comments yet

  The Trump administration has killed NASA's Carbon Monitoring System, which was responsible for compiling data from satellite and aircraft measurements of worldwide CO2 and methane emissions. ...

• Kanpur leads WHO blacklist of cities with worst air pollution 2 May 2018 This post has no comments yet

  Fourteen Indian cities, led by the northern metropolis known for its leather and shoe industries, feature in the 15 cities with the dirtiest air in the WHO's global list. ...

• If China builds your dams, India won’t buy energy: PM Narendra Modi to tell KP Oli 7 April 2018 | Jyoti Malhotra This post has one comment

  One particular dam project, the $2.5-b Budhi Gandaki project, on a river by the same name in Nepal, is increasingly becoming the centrepiece of this tug-of-war between Delhi and Beijing. ...

• Air pollution reaches dangerous levels in Delhi 10 November 2017 | Tibet Sun Newsroom This post has no comments yet

  Air pollution in the Indian capital has hit dangerous levels causing grave health concerns, with doctors declaring the situation a public health crisis. ...

• NASA satellite sees overheated tropical forests oozing with carbon dioxide 13 October 2017 | Doris Elin Salaza This post has no comments yet

  NASA's latest carbon dioxide-mapping satellite has detected a dramatic spike in the amount of the greenhouse gas in the atmosphere, the largest annual increase on Earth in at least 2,000 yea ...

• China says no forced relocations after UNESCO listing of Tibetan area 12 July 2017 | Ben Blanchard This post has 2 comments

  Tibtetan groups have argued the UNESCO designation would allow Chinese authorities to remove residents from the Hoh Xil area, and threaten its environment and nomadic culture. ...

• Iceberg four times the size of London breaks off from Antarctica ice shelf | Danny Boyle This post has no comments yet

  Researchers have been monitoring a huge crack in the Larsen C Ice Shelf, which had left a vast iceberg more than four times the size of London "hanging by a thread". ...