Tag Archives: Environment

  • 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. ...

  • Ugyen Gyalpo 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. ...

  • Mila Rangzen Genetic purification, and future of living beings 9 October 2016 | Mila Rangzen This post has 5 comments

    All attempts by humans to find answers to our problems have failed because we humans were not visionary enough, not revolutionary enough, and obviously not bold enough. ...

  • Unique Tibetan gene and its evolution 7 October 2016 | Tenzin Tsedup This post has no comments yet

    The adaptation of Tibetans is a wonderful discovery to understand how evolution can occur rapidly in response to geographic and environmental constraints. ...

  • Laden Tshering Samdup Tibet: For whom does the bell toll? 30 September 2016 | Laden Tshering Samdup This post has one comment

    "No man is an island" -- The Tibetan cause is a fight for you and your posterity’s survival on this earth. ...

  • Billionaire Elon Musk outlines plans for humans to colonize Mars 28 September 2016 | Irene Klotz This post has no comments yet

    SpaceX intends to fly to Mars about every 26 months when Earth and Mars are favorably aligned. Musk said he would like to launch the first crew as early as 2024. ...

  • NS Venkataraman Where is the world now after Paris Climate Conference? 18 September 2016 | NS Venkataraman This post has no comments yet

    Will the Paris Agreement coming into force really make any significant difference, since there are many underlying issues that have not been addressed. ...