Tag Archives: Environment
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McLeod Ganj finally gets attention from local authorities
27 November 2018 | Lobsang Wangyal
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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. ...
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Dobhi Tibetan settlement affected by flood; CTA yet to reach out
26 September 2018 | Lobsang Wangyal
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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. ...
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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. ...
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Trump administration shuts down NASA’s $10-million carbon monitoring program while CO2 levels soar
14 May 2018 | Jean-Pierre Chigne
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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. ...
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Kanpur leads WHO blacklist of cities with worst air pollution
2 May 2018
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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. ...
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If China builds your dams, India won’t buy energy: PM Narendra Modi to tell KP Oli
7 April 2018 | Jyoti Malhotra
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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. ...
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Air pollution reaches dangerous levels in Delhi
10 November 2017 | Tibet Sun Newsroom
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Air pollution in the Indian capital has hit dangerous levels causing grave health concerns, with doctors declaring the situation a public health crisis. ...
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NASA satellite sees overheated tropical forests oozing with carbon dioxide
13 October 2017 | Doris Elin Salaza
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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 ...
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China says no forced relocations after UNESCO listing of Tibetan area
12 July 2017 | Ben Blanchard
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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. ...
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Iceberg four times the size of London breaks off from Antarctica ice shelf
| Danny Boyle
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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". ...