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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). ….
Oct16, 2018) – Even as dangers from a barrier lake formed by a landslide which blocked the Drichu (Chinese: Yangtze River) tributary of Jinsha River at Bolo Township of Jomda County in Tibet’s Chamdo (Qamdo) City receded ….
Thousands have been evacuated as water continues to rise
On Tuesday morning (11 October), a massive landslide occurred on the mountainside at the intersection of Phayul, Bhatang and Derong counties.
The magnitude of the landslide caused a serious blockage of the Drichu river, resulting in flooding of the surrounding area. ….
Lha Charitable Trust organised our monthly mass cleanup on September 15, as usual on the third Saturday of the month. This month’s cleanup went from Mcleod main square to Tushita road, leading to the illegal dumpsite up there in the middle of the forest. Our students, volunteers and a few environment-conscious people living here in Mcleod joined us for the event. ….
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 high in the Himalayas, exploiting Tibet’s precious resources and bringing no benefits to the Tibetan people, ….
By tew
SOURCE :New Delhi, Hindustan Times
146 glaciers in Chandra basin lost one-fifth of the estimated volume of water since 1984.Overall spread of the glaciers might not fall but water content is likely to go down.(AFP file) The low-altitude Himalayan glaciers are losing water at a faster pace than the ones in higher reaches due to rising temperatures creating water risk in these regions, a new study has found. ….
