Tag Archives: Environment

• Brazil deploys warplanes to fight Amazon rainforest fires 26 August 2019 | Jake Spring and Ricardo Moraes This post has no comments yet

  Brazilian warplanes are dumping water on the burning forest in the Amazon state of Rondonia, responding to a global outcry over the destruction of the world’s largest tropical rain forest. ...

• Brazil faces global backlash over Amazon fires 23 August 2019 | Sam Meredith This post has one comment

  The Amazon rainforest, often referred to as the lungs of the Earth, has been ravaged by a record number of fires this year, sparking global outrage over Brazil’s environmental policies. ...

• Tibet’s climate, land use policy not China’s internal affair: Sangay 24 June 2019 | Statesman News Service This post has no comments yet

  CTA President Sangay on Sunday said at a time when climate change is gaining momentum, Tibet’s climate and land use policies should not be treated solely as ‘internal affairs’ of China. ...

• Four bodies and ten tonnes of rubbish collected from Everest 27 May 2019 This post has 2 comments

  Four bodies have been retrieved from Everest and some ten tonnes of garbage plucked from the mountain at the end of this year's climbing season, Nepal authorities said Monday. ...

• Three tonnes of rubbish collected from Everest 4 May 2019 This post has no comments yet

  A clean-up team sent to Mount Everest has collected three tonnes of garbage in its first two weeks, officials said Wednesday, in an ambitious plan to clean the world's highest rubbish dump. ...

• Expert warns of environmental catastrophe in Tibet 23 March 2019 | Lobsang Wangyal This post has no comments yet

  Michael Buckley, Tibet specialist and environmentalist, has warned of the looming ecological and environmental catastrophe due to climate change, affecting the lives of billions of people. ...

• Students around the world join protest for climate change 16 March 2019 | AFP Bureaux This post has no comments yet

  Hundreds of thousands of young people skipped school across the globe on Friday to march through the streets for an international day of student protests aimed at pushing world leaders. ...

• China closes Everest base camp in Tibet due to garbage 22 February 2019 This post has no comments yet

  China has closed the Mount Everest base camp in Tibet to tourists who don't have climbing permits in order to deal with the mounting garbage problem at the site, officials say. ...

• 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. ...