The ‘third pole’ is the planet’s largest reservoir of ice and snow after the Arctic and Antarctic. It encompasses the Himalaya–Hindu Kush mountain ranges and the Tibetan Plateau. The region hosts the world’s 14 highest mountains and about 100,000 square kilometres of glaciers (an area the size of Iceland). Meltwater feeds ten great rivers, including the Indus, Brahmaputra, Ganges, Yellow and Yangtze, ….
DHARAMSALA, Dec 31: China’s White Paper on Tibet’s Environment do not match ground realities, the Central Tibetan Administration(CTA) said today at a press conference held here in Dharamsala. ….
By Nick Hawkins
The face of a mountainside near Bolo Township, by Chambo City inJomda County, Eastern Tibet collapsed into the Drichu River (the Yangste in Chinese)on October 11, blocking the river and forming a huge barrier lake 5km long, 200 meters wide and70 meters deep. ….
Provincial authorities plan to divert the Yellow River away from Amdo and towards the city of Xining
Tibetans in Tibet’s Amdo region face the possibility of their water supply being diverted under plans to change the course of the Machu River. ….
Oct28, 2018) – The average temperature in the northeastern part of the Tibetan Plateau has been rising at a rate well over three times the average speed of global warming since 1961, reported China’s official Xinhua news agency Oct 27, citing latest statistics from the climate centre of Qinghai Province. What is more, thawing permafrost, which would free trapped carbon, is seen to lead to further increase in the rising temperature. ….
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Nov05, 2018– A new barrier lake has formed after another large landslide hit Bolo Township in Chamdo (Qamdo) City of Tibet Autonomous Region (TAR) on Nov 3 evening, blocking a section of Jinsha River, part of the headwaters system of Yangze River known in Tibetan as the Drichu. ….
Oct 18: As many as 6,000 people from Menling County in the Traditional Tibetan Province of U-Tsang had been evacuated after a landslide had blocked the Yarlung Tsangpo, China’s emergency services announced earlier that day ….
As the Chinese government released a new white paper claiming it supports “ecological conservation” in Tibet, state media announced that China has stepped up production of bottled water from Tibet’s endangered glaciers, and news emerged of more major hydropower schemes in central Tibet, financed by the state. ….
In recent years, China’s exploitation of Tibet’s natural resources has gathered pace significantly. Tibetans have no power to protect their own land and must watch the economic benefits of its resources flow out of their country.
The proliferation of mining and extraction projects across Tibet, backed up by finances from the Chinese government, ….
Oct13, 2018) – More than 24,600 residents of Tibet’s Chamdo (Chinese: Qamdo or Changdu) City and nearby Tibetan areas in Sichuan Province had been evacuated by 6pm Oct 12 due to fears of flood resulting from a barrier lake formed by a massive landslide which had blocked the Jinsha River, a tributary of the Yangtze River (Tibetan: Drichu). ….
