The Earth is undoubtedly facing a global environmental crisis. Human activities are changing the climate, melting the glaciers,clearing the forest, exterminating many species, creating antibiotic resistance, polluting our water sources, and moving species into new locations where their success becomes a problem. ….
June 5 is celebrated as World Environment Day all over the world and Lha Charitable Trust observed it with an open Essay Contest in Tibetan and English language on the theme Beat Plastic Pollution. The Open Essay Competition was announced to the public on 24th May and 30 people participated in the competition. ….
by Clare Harrison The World’s Water Tower
The Tibetan Plateau, with its vast grasslands, high altitude lakes, glaciers and snowy peaks, plays a fundamental role in maintaining the balance of global climatic systems. Known as the ‘Third Pole’,Tibet represents the largest body of ice and permafrost outside of the Arctic and Antarctic regions. ….
Genesis of a neo Earth
by: Tenzin Younten Zenang
When Mr. Leo Baekland invented ‘bakelite’ in 1907, he would have never imagined that a young eight year old Tibetan refugee who never saw an ocean would swim in a pool of emptied plastic bottles in Mc’leodGanj. ….
Beat Plastic Pollution By Lobsang Dhondup
Introduction: In the last few decades, plastic pollution in the world has increased very fast, especially in Asian countries like India and Nepal. It has badly affected human health and the life of creatures, particularly fish, seabirds, dolphins and whales. ….
KNOW AND BEAT PLASTIC POLLUTION By: Urgen Lhamo
We earmark and commemorate World Environment Day every year on 5th June with oodles of speeches and think pieces about how to tackle the grave issues our planet earth is facing at the moment. If instead, ….
Open essay competition to mark World
Topic: The theme for the competition is “Beat Plastic Pollution”. Contributions are invited on this theme, various interpretations of this topic will be accepted. ….
April 21, 2018: Saturday Lha Charitable Trust in collaboration with Clean Upper Dharamshala (CUDP) and Tibetan Women’s Association (TWA) organised a mass clean-up drive to observe World Earth day. This time, we have picked up trashes around Kyirong village site at Tipa road. ….
Sustainability has been defined and practiced for at least 30 years. How relevant is its practice today to the readership of Lha’sContact Magazine (Contact) and Tibet Nature Environmental Conservation Network website (TNECN)?
This article defines the term Sustainability and summarises 6 environmental articles that show sustainability in practice. ….
How do we reduce the wastes and materials we use to ensure wise use of the earth’s limited resources? Lha conducts a monthly mass waste clean-up around McLeod Ganj (refer Contact magazine monthly reports) At Lha’s waste clean-up on 21 October 2017 a lot of solid waste was collected, much from roadside drains, culverts and embankments. Some was old and some new. ….
