Every infrastructure development along the Indo-Tibet border would bring a new degree of threat to India’s border security. But the construction of a ‘super dam’ in Metok means the threat expands all the way to Arunachal Pradesh and Assam. The close proximity of the location to India’s border means any sudden release of water from the dam could quickly reach India with very little time for evacuation. ....
China has lost around 20 percent glacier coverage between 1970 and 2010, while Tibet has seen a fall of 27.7 percent, research finds. China has lost around a fifth of its glacier ice coverage between 1970 and 2010, the national newspaper Guangming Daily and Chinese state news organisation The Global Times reported in December, citing “official research.” ....
Dharamshala: Ahead of the COP25 UN Climate Summit to be held in Spain on December 2 -13, 2019, the Central Tibetan Administration launched the 2nd ‘Climate Action for Tibet: The Earth’s Third Pole’ campaign, urging the world leaders to recognize the global ecological importance of the Tibetan Plateau and make Tibet central to any discussion on global climate change. ....
Toxic mine water dumped into the Gurchu river, a Class II water body. [Photo: Chinese Ministry of Ecology and Environment]
Photo: TCHRD
Gold mining in the Tibetan Autonomous Region (TAR) is causing “irreversible environmental damage and poisoning of drinking water sources with cyanide, arsenic, mercury and lead”, according to a new report by the Tibetan Centre for Human Rights and Democracy (TCHRD) published on October 4. ....
World Cleanup Day 2019 was observed on September 21 with a mass cleanup around Bhagsu Road, Mcleod Ganj in collaboration with the Clean Upper Dharamshala team. Lha students, volunteers and staff, together with the Clean Upper Dharamshala team worked together to clean up the forest area around Bhagsu road and the bridges above Amdo Village which have become an illegal dump site. ….
By Michael Buckley
On Friday, September 20 and 27, students around the world will strike for climate crisis action — joined by adults — with protests planned for hundreds of cities around the world. Tibet 3rd Pole* is calling on Tibetans to join the action to add their voice and to draw attention to the Tibetan perspective. Tibet should be at the forefront of any discussion about the climate crisis. ….
The Zoigê grasslands may greatly benefit from removing the fences that divide them, but entrenched interests and government policy are pushing in the other direction, reports Feng Hao ….
Lha observed World Environment Day with a Tibetan Animals drawing competition at three different Tibetan schools (Upper TCV, Lower TCV and Petoen School). 112 students took part. ….
21st June 2019, London: The President Dr. Lobsang Sangay joined eminent scientist Professor Chris Rapley CBE, Professor of Climate Science at UCL, for a panel discussion on Climate Change and Tibet at University College London’s Darwin Lecture Theatre. ….
By Rebecca MorelleScience Correspondent, BBC News
Images from Cold War spy satellites have revealed the dramatic extent of ice loss in the Himalayan glaciers.
Scientists compared photographs taken by a US reconnaissance program with recent spacecraft observations and found that melting in the region has doubled over the last 40 years. ….
