Tag Archives: Environment

  • 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. ...

  • Claudia Roth Let the people in Tibet live in freedom 11 September 2016 | Claudia Roth This post has 2 comments

    Gatherings like this, the 7th International Tibet Support Groups Conference, are paramount to the fight for justice, and a symbol against silence and indifference. ...

  • TSG Conference asks China to resume dialogue for Tibetan autonomy 10 September 2016 | Lobsang Wangyal This post has 2 comments

    The three-day Seventh Tibet Support Groups Conference in Brussels came to an end with 250 delegates from 50 countries reaffirming their dedication to the Tibetan cause. ...

  • Black carbon accelerating glacier meltdown in Tibetan Plateau 31 August 2016 This post has one comment

    Fossil fuel and biomass, which are sources of black carbon, are accelerating glacier meltdown across the Himalayas and Tibetan Plateau, a new research report has found. ...

  • Tenzin Tsedup Mercury’s rising, quite literally! 9 August 2016 | Tenzin Tsedup This post has 4 comments

    One can only hope that the PRC, South Asian countries, and global community act before it is too late. ...

  • India flooding kills 96, forces 1 million into relief camps 2 August 2016 This post has no comments yet

    The death toll in flooding from heavy monsoon rains in India has climbed past 90, with about a million people taking shelter in government-run relief camps, officials said Tuesday. ...

  • Qinghai-Tibet Railway boosts Tibet’s economy 29 June 2016 | Li Jianhua This post has no comments yet

    Over the past decade, the 2000-kilometre railway linking Xining, capital of Qinghai Province, and Lhasa, capital of the Tibet region, has brought a big difference to the lives of people living in Tibet. ...

  • India’s Supreme Court orders disaster fund for drought-hit zones 11 May 2016 This post has no comments yet

    Justice Madan B. Lokur also lashed out at the government over a lack of preparedness for the drought, which has struck at least 10 states across the country. ...