Tag Archives: Environment

• 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. ...

• China begins construction of Tibet’s biggest dam 30 April 2016 This post has one comment

  The Suwalong hydropower project at the junction of Mangkam county in Tibet and Batang county in Sichuan province has a design capacity of 1.2 gigawatts. ...

• China says new Tibet railway project will not harm environment 7 March 2016 | Michael Martina This post has no comments yet

  "The border belongs to our motherland. We Tibetans have the responsibility to guard it well" -- Padma Choling, vice party secretary of Tibet. ...

• World’s most polluted capital, Delhi, to resume car ban in April 12 February 2016 This post has no comments yet

  New Delhi will restart draconian driving restrictions that will take around a million cars off the roads, to combat air quality in the world's most polluted capital, ...

• Quake fault straining underneath Kathmandu: study 11 January 2016 This post has no comments yet

  A massive underground fault line which ruptured last year, causing a killer earthquake in Nepal, is still under tremendous strain underneath Kathmandu. ...

• Wildfire claims more than 100 homes in Australia 26 December 2015 This post has no comments yet

  A bushfire which flared on Christmas Day has destroyed more than 100 homes in southern Australia, and officials warned the losses could have been worse. ...

• Beijing issues second red alert ahead of smog 18 December 2015 This post has no comments yet

  Beijing issued its second-ever red alert for smog Friday ahead of severe pollution forecast to hit China's capital, weeks after putting emergency response plan into action. ...

• Euphoria as landmark Paris climate deal adopted 14 December 2015 | Karl Malakunas and Mariëtte Le Roux This post has one comment

  Cheering envoys from 195 nations on Saturday approved a historic accord in Paris to stop global warming, offering hope that humanity can avert catastrophic climate change. ...

• Chennai grapples with deadly flood aftermath 6 December 2015 This post has no comments yet

  Residents in India's southern Tamil Nadu state Saturday were grappling with the aftermath of devastating floods as authorities stepped up relief work following the worst deluge in decades that killed over 250 people. ...