The Threat to Tibet’s Fresh Water
The most precious resource on earth is not fossil fuels such as gas or oil, not precious metals and not gems; it is water. 97% of the earth’s water is salt water, found in the…
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The most precious resource on earth is not fossil fuels such as gas or oil, not precious metals and not gems; it is water. 97% of the earth’s water is salt water, found in the…
Over the last 15 years we have heard a great deal about the importance of ‘Global Warming’ (the increase in global temperatures due to the accelerated emission of greenhouse gases) but little international attention has…
Large areas of grasslands, alpine meadows, wetlands and permafrost will disappear on the Tibetan plateau by 2050, with serious implications for environmental security in China and South Asia, a recent research paper published by scientists…
Mike Ives 13.06.2014 Every spring in south-west China, there is an explosion of colour in the Daxue Shan, a mountain range on the eastern Tibetan plateau. As the terrain rises toward the snowy mountain peaks,…
Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung is trying to maintain cordial diplomatic relations with his fellow Mekong River Commission Council and Asean members, while at the same time ratcheting up pressure for a halt to…
Today ( June 5), Lha collaborated with the Tibetan Women’s Association (TWA) and the Clean Upper Dharamsala Programme (CUDP) to observe World Environment Day. The programme started at 10am, where students from the nearby Dharamshala…
ANI | Apr 24, 2014, 06.36 PM IST: WASHINGTON: Scientists have claimed that climbing Mount Everest is becoming less predictable and possibly more dangerous, as climate change brings warmer temperatures that may eat through the…
Berlin, Germany, 13 April 2014 – The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the group of the world’s leading climate change scientists established by the UN General Assembly and working under the auspices of the United…
By John Upton: A U.S. push to smash open India’s fast-growing solar market could end up hurting the climate. That was the message from 15 U.S. environmental groups in a letter sent Wednesday to U.S. Trade…
A Vietnamese man identified as Huu Dinh Khao, left, and two Togolese men stand next to a haul of ivory tusks after being seized by security forces at the port of Lome January 28, 2014.…