By Dorji Kyi / October 29, 2015; Climate Action for the Roof of the World is a campaign on environmental degradation in Tibet launched on October 20 by the Tibetan Government in Exile, or Central…
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, shrubs give way…
Recent summer heatwaves in Europe and northeast Asia have caused massive water shortages and a large number of deaths. But the mechanism behind these extreme weather events is not fully understood.
Posted on August 22, 2015 by rukor-admin THE TIBET CONNECTIONS Why were 700 tons of sodium cyanide sitting in a Tianjin warehouse waiting to explode? What was all that cyanide for?
Paddy cultivation, an arduous process with farmers often dissatisfied with the yield, is one of the main sources of livelihood in India’s north-east state of Assam. Things could soon change, however, with ‘serial innovator’ Uddhab…
Beth Walker, Liu Qin 28.07.2015 As outlined in China’s national climate plan, submitted to the United Nations last month, the country’s aim to peak greenhouse gas emissions by 2030 or sooner will rely heavily on…
By :Michelle Chen It’s been a while since China built a transcontinental railway in the Americas. Last time, Chinese laborers were deployed to work on the railway that linked the East and West Coasts of…
By ANDREW JACOBS JULY 11, 2015 MADOI, China — If modern material comforts are the measure of success, then Gere, a 59-year-old former yak-and-sheep herder in China’s western Qinghai Province, should be a happy man.
India is poised to lose its entire available water supply within 500 years if its current food export policy continues, a new method of calculating “virtual water” flow through trade has shown. China, in contrast,…
By Zhang Hongzhou June 30, 2015 With China’s late-2014 completion of the Zangmu dam, the largest hydropower dam on the Brahmaputra River (known in Tibet as the Yarlung Tsangpo River), many Indian and international security…