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Posts Tagged ‘Tibet’
Animals, Videos & Documentaries, Weird Stuff, Jun 3rd, 2012,
Most of us have had the experience of being followed by a friendly stray or loose dog for a while during a walk or jog. Usually the sociable canine will tag along for a while and then move on to pastures anew. On a recent bike race across China, a stray took this kind of behavior to an entirely different level and it now has a new home with one of the cyclists. Now named Xiao Sa, or ‘Little Sa’, the stray ran with the cyclists for 20 days, covering 1,700km (1,056mi) until the race’s completion in Lhasa, Tibet. Sa…
Tags: China, cycle, dog, little sa, race, Tibet, xiao sa
Conservation, Nature, Politics, Pollution, Wildlife & Flora, Jul 5th, 2010,
I have heard and seen some pretty crazy environmental news lately, but I think this piece is absolutely ridiculous beyond belief. What am I talking about? A Tibetan environmentalist was sentenced to a 5 year jail term because he organized villagers to pick up litter and plant trees. …Yes, you read that correctly. The Chinese court sent an environmentalist to jail for getting people to help the environment in a positive way. Does that make any sense to you? It certainly doesn’t to me. According to the lawyer, the sentencing has more to do with “inciting to split the nation”…
Tags: 5 year jail sentence, Chinese court, cleaning up litter, Conservation, crazy, Dalai Lama, NGO, organizing villagers, positive environmental help, reforestation, ridiculous, Tibet, Tibetan environmentalist
Climate Change, Green living, Nature, Science & Technology, Jun 17th, 2010,
Flooding has swept away many homes and lives in China recently. However, it may surprise you to learn that the biggest threat is a lack of water, not the rising of it. Thousands of Tibetans face possible drought as a result of Global Warming and environmental degradation. It’s a rather devastating domino effect in the works at this point: melting glaciers and permafrost are causing the erosion of grasslands and wetlands, which in turn are posing a threat to the water sources of the Mekong, Yangtze, and Yellow Rivers. Government scientist, Xin Yuanhong, who led an important survey of the…
Tags: China, drought, erosion, falling water levels, global warming, Mekong, Qinghai-Tibet plateau, rivers, Tibet, Yangtze, Yellow
