Climate change across the Tibetan Plateau greatly impacts Tibetan livelihoods, even though Tibetan customary modes of production generate very little of the emissions that cause climate change. As the world’s biggest maker and user of…
China has lost around 20 percent glacier coverage between 1970 and 2010, while Tibet has seen a fall of 27.7 percent, research finds. China has lost around a fifth of its glacier ice coverage between…
Dharamshala: Ahead of the COP25 UN Climate Summit to be held in Spain on December 2 -13, 2019, the Central Tibetan Administration launched the 2nd ‘Climate Action for Tibet: The Earth’s Third Pole’ campaign, urging the world leaders…
By Michael Buckley On Friday, September 20 and 27, students around the world will strike for climate crisis action — joined by adults — with protests planned for hundreds of cities around the world. Tibet…
The Zoigê grasslands may greatly benefit from removing the fences that divide them, but entrenched interests and government policy are pushing in the other direction, reports Feng Hao
By Sarah Weber A special report on the Climate Emergency by the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel for Climate Change (IPPC) has highlighted the increased risk posed to Tibet as the “Third Pole”, a climate change…
Nabilah Islam The “Third Pole” glaciers of the Himalayas feed into the major rivers of South Asia, providing vital freshwater. This resource is essential to the development of national and local communities and economies. With…
Herders benefit from a vast effort to restore wetlands. But how many yaks is too many for the grassland ecosystem? The yaks are in clover. At times I could see more than a thousand…
Lha organised a talk on Tibet’s Unique Ecosystem at TCV Gopalpur on March 23 with the intention of raising environmental awareness issues in Tibet. Mr Tempa Gyaltsen Zamlha, Head of the Environment
How can Asian countries survive without Tibetan glaciers and water? The Tibetan plateau, which holds the Hindu Kush Himalaya (HKH) ice sheet, is known as the world’s “Third Pole.” It holds the largest number of…