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. ….
Tibetan villagers living in northwestern China’s Gansu province are protesting the proposed extension of a Chinese-built highway into nomadic grazing areas, blocking earth-moving equipment with their bodies and demanding that the work be stopped, sources said. ….
China recently unveiled an action plan for its controversial One Belt, One Road initiative to link its economy with the rest of Asia, Africa, the Middle East and Europe. Known as the ‘new silk roads’, it combines new infrastructure networks of roads, railway lines, ports to strengthen trade, investment, and people-to-people cooperation. ….
By Zamlha Tempa Gyaltsen
The toxic smog engulfing Beijing and other Chinese cities has forced the Communist government to amend its development model and bring in a new environmental protection law in a bid to calm ever growing public anger. Unfortunately, as in the past, the new environment law may prefer to stay within China proper rather than extend into the ethnic regions of the PRC.
Nepal is one of the world’s most water-rich nations, with over 6,000 rivers and huge hydropower potential. But it is also one of the world’s most disaster-prone regions. ….
Tibetan villagers living in the southwestern Chinese province of Yunnan have marked the beginning of the Lunar New Year by vowing to give up the wearing of animal furs and by burning those already in their possession, sources said. ….
