Tag Archives: Environment

• 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". ...

• Rights groups protest UNESCO heritage status decision in Tibetan area 8 July 2017 | Ben Blanchard and Cate Cadell This post has no comments yet

  Tibetan rights groups say the UNESCO designation will allow Chinese authorities to remove residents from the area Hoh Xil and threaten its environment and nomadic culture. ...

• China plans world’s biggest national park on Tibetan plateau 22 April 2017 | Stephen Chen This post has 5 comments

  The Tibetan plateau is home to cities, towns, and people, with native Tibetan population estimated at 7.8 million, a national park focused on conservation would limit economic activities. ...

• Dalai Lama in Tawang: The other mission of Tibetan spiritual leader in Arunachal 10 April 2017 | Manogya Loiwal This post has 4 comments

  The Dalai Lama considers preserving the Himalayan ecology a mission; he joined the forest department to distribute 110,000 saplings to his followers for planting, as Prasad. ...

• Trump scrubs climate change from White House web site; environmentalists fume 21 January 2017 | Stuart Leavenworth This post has no comments yet

  The web site change took down Obama’s Climate Action Plan, replacing it with Trump’s “America First Energy Plan,” eliminating policies for renewable energy and reducing greenhouse gases. ...

• China transports water from Tibet by chartered trains 28 December 2016 This post has no comments yet

  Identifying its fresh water resources as a new pillar of economic growth, China plans to raise Tibet's annual production of drinking water to five million tonnes in the next 3 to 5 years. ...

• Tibet becomes warmer and wetter due to global warming 11 December 2016 | KJM Varma This post has no comments yet

  There has been a steady increase in average temperatures in Tibet in the last three and a half decades from global warming, with an adverse impact on its glaciers. ...

• Upon Standing Rock Tibet wails 7 December 2016 | Ugyen Gyalpo This post has 2 comments

  What the native Americans have been going through for hundreds of years resonates closely to what my people in Tibet are going through -- the systematic destruction of their civilization. ...

• Delhi shuts schools as smog sparks health emergency 7 November 2016 | Claire Cozens This post has one comment

  Authorities in Delhi on Monday closed schools, halted construction work and shut down a major power plant after days of choking smog led to warnings of a health emergency. ...