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. ….
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 news that China has stopped sharing hydrological data of the Brahmaputra River with India which China agreed to share. ….
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 Beijing time, but out on the Ganjia grasslands, in Xiahe county, the sun shows no sign of setting. ….
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 would be the second airport for nearby Shigatse City and the sixth in the Tibetan Autonomous Region (TAR). ….
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 the Tibetan Plateau — the highest and largest plateau on the planet — cover a massive 25 per cent of China’s landmass.It plays an important role — it contains the largest supply of fresh water outside the polar regions, ….
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 for compensation after land was taken from them in mid-2017. The land was confiscated purportedly under the pretext that it was being turned into a farming zone or a pasture. ….
