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 the United States—and were rewarded with epidemic labor abuse and racial-exclusion laws. ….
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, as a net importer of food, will not suffer major losses, according to the study. ….
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 experts have been warning of the coming of “water wars” between the two countries. ….
Bangladesh has launched a 10-day flood forecasting system this monsoon, with the help of water flow data from upstream India and China.
“Under the newly introduced system, we are providing flood forecasting that contains river flow data of 38 measuring stations of 18 rivers including the major river systems such as the Brahmaputra, Ganga/Padma, Surma and Meghna across the country from this monsoon,” Amirul Islam, director of Flood Forecasting and Warning Centre (FFWC), Bangladesh, told thethirdpole.net. ….
A zinc-lead mine in Yunnan linked to a deposed local cadre may have caused lead poisoning in local children, according to an investigation by Greenpeace. ….
A towering rock structure deep under East Asia has been indicated in research work involving 3-D supercomputer simulations using data from 227 earthquakes that hit the region during 2007-2011. ….
By Navin Singh Khadka
Environment reporter, BBC World Service
The height of a swathe of the Himalayas has dropped by around one metre as a result of the devastating Nepal earthquake, scientists say. But they add that the drop will roughly be balanced by slow uplift due to tectonic activity.
Its Possible Cause and Impacts
1. Introduction
On Friday, 29 March 2013, Chinese state media reported that 83 miners including two Tibetans had been buried after a major landslide hit a part of the Gyama (Ch:Jiama) Copper Polymetallic Mine, early morning at 6.00 local time. As of April 4, 66 miners have been confirmed dead and 17 are reported missing, believed dead. ….
Although the precise picture is still unclear, it’s likely that Nepal’s huge earthquake last month has wreaked major damage to a dozen hydroelectric projects in Nepal. ….
