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Headline	Author	Published	Section
If I Were a Tibetan Man ... Protests in Tibet partially spurred by environmental resentment		18 Mar 2008	News
Posted at 4:41 PM on 18 Mar 2008 Violent protests that rose this week against Chinese rule in Tibet were spurred in part by anger about environmental destruction in the Himalayas, an area that Tibetans consider sacred. A Beijing-to-Lhasa railway opened by the Chinese in 2006 has provided easy access for Chinese miners to the pristine Tibetan highlands, where they've begun digging up copper, iron, lead, a ...
Topics: China, mining, news, Tibet, water conflicts (all these topics)

Have You Herd? China relocates Tibetan herders in interest of environment		03 Oct 2007	News
Posted at 4:48 PM on 03 Oct 2007 Ugh: China is ordering 100,000 ethnic Tibetans to give up their traditional nomadic habits and settle in towns because their way of life is threatening the environment, state press reported Tuesday. Glaciers in the province where the herders live are an initial source for both the Yellow and Yangtze Rivers; somehow we imagine that the impact on the rivers from overgrazing and erosion pales ...
Topics: China, insanity, news, Tibet, water pollution (all these topics)

On Track Betting A journey on China's controversial new train to Tibet	Erica Gies	23 Feb 2007	Main Dish
Each night, the Qinghai-Tibet train leaves Beijing at 9:30. A mere 48 hours later, it rolls into Lhasa, 2,525 miles away. Waiting to depart from Beijing. Photos: Erica Gies Shortly after 9 p.m. one warm night last fall, my travel companion and I raced through the sprawling West Beijing train station, weaving our way through a crush of humanity sitting on newspapers and bits of cardboard, eating cups ...
Topics: China, placemaking, public transportation, Tibet (all these topics)

Dalai Drama China plans massive diversion of Tibetan river water		03 Aug 2006	Daily Grist
Dalai Drama China plans massive diversion of Tibetan river water The Chinese never met a problem they couldn't solve with a few billion dollars and a massive engineering project out of scale with anything ever attempted before by humanity. The latest is a $37 billion undertaking which would divert water from rivers in the high reaches of Tibet -- which, when you think about it, don't really need all that ...
Topics: China, news, Tibet, water conflicts, Yellow River (all these topics)

Train of Thoughtless Railroad from Beijing to Tibet tries to outmaneuver climate change		07 Jun 2006	Daily Grist
Train of Thoughtless Railroad from Beijing to Tibet tries to outmaneuver climate change A railroad connecting Beijing, China, to Lhasa, Tibet, has been completed, despite considerable political and environmental obstacles. The project, conceived over 40 years ago by Mao Zedong, is a symbol of Chinese domination and has faced opposition from proponents of Tibetan independence. The railroad runs through seismically active ar ...
Topics: China, news, placemaking, Tibet (all these topics)

You're Looking Swell, Dalai Dalai Lama's admonition may be cooling illegal tiger-skin trade in Tibet		07 Mar 2006	Daily Grist
You're Looking Swell, Dalai Dalai Lama's admonition may be cooling illegal tiger-skin trade in Tibet What's it like to have a leader with genuine moral authority? To find out, we take you to Tibet, where the Dalai Lama's exhortations are leading many Tibetans to forswear the multimillion-dollar trade in wild animal skins. Heavy Tibetan demand has fueled a spike in poaching of ever-scarcer tigers and leopards in India. But in January, ...
Topics: news, Tibet, wildlife (all these topics)

Freeze Tibet Global warming liquefying the glaciers of Tibet		04 Jan 2006	Daily Grist
Freeze Tibet Global warming liquefying the glaciers of Tibet High-altitude Tibet is known as the "rooftop of the world," but lately the roof is a bit saggy. Global warming is rapidly melting glaciers on the Tibetan Plateau, water source for many of the region's rivers. This great melt -- already being felt in flooding -- could eventually cause water shortages and a variety of other troubles. Villagers in Miyon, who live near ...
Topics: climate, news, Tibet (all these topics)

Little Red Tibet Tibet suffers melting glaciers and nuclear dumpage		05 Oct 2004	Daily Grist
Little Red Tibet Tibet suffers melting glaciers and nuclear dumpage As if living under the heel of a repressive communist neighbor wasn't bad enough, Tibet now has to contend with a coming ecological catastrophe and nuclear waste it didn't produce. According to a survey conducted by some 20 U.S. and Chinese scientists, Tibet's glaciers -- which have been receding for decades, particularly since 1990 -- could melt entirely by 2100. ...
Topics: climate, Tibet, toxics (all these topics)

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