by Marvin Westerveld & photo by:tibet.org The Tibetan glaciers are shrinking at a rate which is causing alarm: a study by the Chinese Academy of Science (CAS) has found that 15% of all glaciers on…
By Mary Trewartha Liverpool Football Club has caved in to pressure from Tibet campaigners and has chosen not to renew its controversial sponsorship deal with Tibet Water Resources Ltd (TWRL). TWRL extracts water from sources…
By:tew The issue of Brahmaputra river pollution comes at a time of deteriorating ties between India and China. Following a tense border standoff between the two countries over the Doklam trijunction, there comes a…
By tew– Official China is fixated on controlling everything, including the weather, even when science struggles to provide methods for doing so. China boasts of doing weather modification in Tibet,
by Feng Hao Source: Chinadialogue.net A Buddhist lama and his local volunteers search for a solution to the growing piles of rubbish on the remote Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau It’s seven o’clock in the evening…
Tibetans from Lhatse County in southwest Tibet have been forced off their land to accommodate the growing tourism industry in occupied Tibet. According to local sources, the land adjoining Lhatse and Dingri counties is being turned into an airport. This…
Climate change is sometimes discussed as a problem of the future, but on the “roof of the world”, it has already arrived. The remote, icy plains of…
Nomadic families in Nyimo County, Central Tibet, appeal for justice one year after local authorities seized their land without compensation Tibet Watch has confirmed that 60 nomadic families are still waiting…
More concerns have been raised that China’s push to increase tourism in Tibet is damaging the environment Video footage has emerged of tourists dumping rubbish at Chaka…
Source : Project Syndicate Aug 23, 2018 by BRAHMA CHELLANEY From large-scale dam-building to unbridled resource-exploitation, human activity is causing serious damage to Himalayan ecosystems. While all the countries in the region are culpable to some…