Enviromental News

DHARAMSHALA: The United States-China Economic and Security Review Commission, a congressional commission of the United States government, will hear Thursday (26 January) a written testimony on Water Security and Environment More

Gabriel Lafitte, www.chinadialogue.net Chinese geologists exploring Tibet in the 1960s criss-crossed the plateau, searching for the mineral wealth they assumed must be abundant, but had not yet discovered. More

By Vishal Gulati, IANS, twocircles.net Dharamsala : Tibet is highly vulnerable to climate change and what happens there matters greatly to the rest of mainland Asia, the 17th Karmapa Ogyen Trinley Dorje, who is the third most important Tibetan religious head, says in a yet-to-be-published write-up. More

SPEAKING this week at the United Nations, President Hu Jintao of China declared that his country “fully appreciates the importance and urgency of addressing climate change." As well it should. China is beginning to realize that it has a lot to lose from the carbon dioxide that the world so blithely emits into the earth’s atmosphere. Mr. More

Tibetan Buddhists regard it as a sacred site. Gold deposits make Ser Ngul Lo valuable in other ways too, and tensions are rising. HONG KONG—Hundreds of villagers in the Tibet Autonomous Region (TAR) of western China are facing off against armed security forces at the site of a planned gold mine on what the Tibetans consider a sacred mountain, witnesses say. More

China’s hydro-engineering projects and plans are a reminder that Tibet is at the heart of the India-China divide. Tibet ceased to be a political buffer when China annexed it nearly six decades ago. More

XINING, July 28 (Xinhua) -- Glaciers covering almost 233 square kilometers have melted over the past 30 years in the source area of the Yangtze River, China's longest waterway, due to global warming and the melting is accelerating, experts said Tuesday. By last year, the total area of glaciers had decreased to 1,051 square kilometers from 1,283 square kilometers in 1971. More

www.trust.org BEIJING, Feb 16 (Reuters) - China will complete by 2015 a $2 billion rail extension from Tibetan capital Lhasa to a monastery town that is the seat of the Panchen Lama, the second-most senior figure in Tibetan Buddhism, state media said on Wednesday. The 13.3 billion yuan ($2. More