Lha organised the monthly mass clean up on March 16 covering areas of TCV (Tibetan Children’s Village) road and the forest area below His Holiness the Dalai Lama’s temple. Lha students and volunteers took part…
There has been a significant rise in the number of people and animals affected by continuing snowstorm since Dec 28 in Yushu (Tibetan: Yulshul) Prefecture of Qinghai Province with corresponding rise in economic losses, according…
Lha’s monthly mass clean up took place on Jan 19, the third Saturday of the month as usual. Around fifteen students and volunteers joined us for the event. We started in Mcleod Ganj and ended…
By Amelia Rozelle Wetlands are valuable ecosystems which naturally purify water. By this action and a lot of different benefits, they are considered to be indispensable.
The ‘third pole’ is the planet’s largest reservoir of ice and snow after the Arctic and Antarctic. It encompasses the Himalaya–Hindu Kush mountain ranges and the Tibetan Plateau. The region hosts the world’s 14 highest…
DHARAMSALA, Dec 31: China’s White Paper on Tibet’s Environment do not match ground realities, the Central Tibetan Administration(CTA) said today at a press conference held here in Dharamsala.
By Nick Hawkins The face of a mountainside near Bolo Township, by Chambo City inJomda County, Eastern Tibet collapsed into the Drichu River (the Yangste in Chinese)on October 11, blocking the river and forming a…
Provincial authorities plan to divert the Yellow River away from Amdo and towards the city of Xining Tibetans in Tibet’s Amdo region face the possibility of their water supply being diverted under plans to change…
The unceasing flooding sweeps away whole villages and townships, destroying crucial infrastructure networks One month ago, we reported on the massive landslide and flooding of villages around Chamdo city, Tibetan Autonomous Region. The landslide caused serious blockage…
Oct28, 2018) – The average temperature in the northeastern part of the Tibetan Plateau has been rising at a rate well over three times the average speed of global warming since 1961, reported China’s official Xinhua news…