A China delegate at a CITES meeting last week admitted that China does not ban the trade of skins from captive tigers, the first time that China has officially acknowledged the allegedly clandestine trade. The…
Police in China’s southwestern Yunnan province on Monday attacked and beat a group of Tibetan women who had gathered to protest copper mining on land considered sacred by residents living near the site, sources said.
McLeod Ganj is a suburb of Dharamsala in the Kangra district of Himachal Pradesh. It is home to the Tibetan government-in-exile and His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama and as such it attracts a great…
At 7th July 2014, around midnight 10:30 pm massive flood hit the Gordo and Telnag village of Mangra District, Amdo region of Eastern Tibet and resulted in destruction of farms and roads.
In the struggle to solve the climate crisis, a powerful, largely unnoticed shift is taking place. The forward journey for human civilization will be difficult and dangerous, but it is now clear that we will…
TOKYO: Japan plans to agree a carbon offset deal with India, Japanese media reported, citing unnamed government sources, potentially making the south Asian country the largest economy yet to sign up to cut greenhouse gas…
Azera Parveen Rahman It can be riskier to row across the mighty Brahmaputra to get to a health centre than to give birth at home – an everyday reality in north-east India
Brian Clark Howard National Geographic Publish May 27, 2014 Carbon dioxide levels exceeded 400 ppm across the Northern Hemisphere for the entire month of April, a significant climate-change milestone.
Brian Clark Howard National Geographic Publish May 27, 2014 Heavy rains can destabilize mountains and lead to deadly disasters
Billboards often line busy roads and highways where there’s lots of traffic– and, by association, lots of air pollution. But what if those billboards could be transformed into giant air purifiers, scrubbing the air and…