By Dorji Kyi China’s State Council Information Office published a White Paper entitled Ecological Progress on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau on July 18, which claims that the Chinese government has always been mindful about environmental progress…
By Areeba Falak, Sunday Guardian While development versus environmental conservation has been a burning debate across the world, China’s development projects in Tibet, too, have been faulted for causing harm to nature. However, last week’s white…
By Zamlha Tempa Gyaltsen China’s latest white paper ‘Ecological Progress on the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau’ begins with a brazen lie that “the Communist…
A river diversion project is being implemented by Chinese authorities that will affect the availability of water resources for local Tibetan farmers and their livelihood in the Chumar Township in Hui Autonomous County and the…
The Earth is undoubtedly facing a global environmental crisis. Human activities are changing the climate, melting the glaciers,clearing the forest, exterminating many species, creating antibiotic resistance, polluting our water sources, and moving species into new…
June 5 is celebrated as World Environment Day all over the world and Lha Charitable Trust observed it with an open Essay Contest in Tibetan and English language on the theme Beat Plastic Pollution. The…
by Clare Harrison The World’s Water Tower The Tibetan Plateau, with its vast grasslands, high altitude lakes, glaciers and snowy peaks, plays a fundamental role in maintaining the balance of global climatic systems. Known…
Genesis of a neo Earth by: Tenzin Younten Zenang When Mr. Leo Baekland invented ‘bakelite’ in 1907, he would have never imagined that a young eight year old Tibetan refugee who never saw an ocean would…
Beat Plastic Pollution By Lobsang Dhondup Introduction: In the last few decades, plastic pollution in the world has increased very fast, especially in Asian countries like India and Nepal. It has badly affected human health and…
KNOW AND BEAT PLASTIC POLLUTION By: Urgen Lhamo We earmark and commemorate World Environment Day every year on 5th June with oodles of speeches and think pieces about how to tackle the grave issues our…