Environment

Outbreak of bird flu in Lhasa

Fur trade in Tibet threatens survival of Himalayan tigers and leopards

Cattle culled in Qinghai

China considers reopening tiger trade

China reluctant to share bird-flu samples

Experts warn of Himalayan floods

Dalai lama visits Scotland and Ireland

Mining companies in Tibet talk to activists

Chinese scientists call on Tibetans to develop environmental protection

Iron ore deposits and oil found on Tibetan Plateau

Bush fires rage in Tibet

NGOs campaign to stop the tiger skin trade

Following the tiger’s trail

Following the tiger's trail

Chinese professor claims global warning threat to railway

Tibetans burn animal skins in Rebkong

Burning of wildlife skins prohibited as tensions rise in Rebkong

Campaign to repel wetland rats

Warmest winter ever in Tibet

Just 70,000 to 100,000 Tibetan antelope remain

Accounts of wildlife skins burning

Three jailed in Tibet for poaching Tibetan antelope

Fur burning incidents in Gansu

US adds Tibetan antelope to endangered species list

China to use GPS technology to map Nepalese-Tibetan border

Tibetan broadcasters ordered to wear fur

Tiger skin prices fall in Lhasa

Climate change causes Tibet's glaciers to melt faster

New bird flu outbreak found in Amdo (Qinghai)

Qinghai Oilfield to be expanded

China to build ‘ecological belt’ in Tibet

Mineral water reserves found along Golmud-Lhasarailway route

Goods cleared for Tibet-China border trade announced

The Shetongmon copper-gold mine - a preliminary report

China calms India over Sutlej hydro plant

Railway already unstable

A new generation of skilled activists (TIB)  (CHI) 

China plans to divert water from Tibet

Railway to extend to Shigatse within three years

Chinese scientists to study Tibet railway's impact on wildlife

Public burning of fur not permitted during Kalachakra in Amdo

Threat to tigers remains

Minister says Tibet water diversion not feasible

China reports 10 bird flu outbreaks this year

Megoe lake dam project cancelled

Joint Chinese-Indian team to study Himalayan glaciers

Global warming threatens Tibetan plateau

Tibet's wildlife problem (TIB)  (CHI) 

Tibetans say no to wildlife products

Sandstorms come early to Lhasa

Large mineral reserves discovered along Tibetan railway

Geological map of the Tibet Plateau finished

Global warming causes jump in Tibet's crane population

Second line to be built at Golmud

Bird flu in Lhasa

Snow on Nepal border disrupts traffic

Environmental sensitisation for Tibetans studying in India

Forest fire in Gonjo

China claims to have created artificial snowfall

China sees climate impacts ahead

TAR experiences third warm winter in seven years

Survey of rivers in TAR

Seizure of bear bile at Tibetan border

Consolidating a 'mini-revolution' (TIB)  (CHI) 

Everest ice forest melting due to global warming

Authorities stop mining in Garthar after protests

China to build highway on world's tallest mountain

Wutai Shan threatened by mining

Record warm weather threatens Tibet's glaciers

China announces 20-year environmental protection plan for Tibet

Mining companies in Tibet told to pay exploitation deposits

Tibet warming at twice global average

Everest road plan on hold

The commercial legend of goji
Selling a Chinese crop under the Tibetan flag (TIB)  (CHI) 

No permanent buildings around Qinghai Lake

China tightens Everest Access

100,000 Tibetan nomads ordered to settle in towns

Tiger products seized in Chinese port

Two Tibetans and a Nepali jailed for wildlife skins

Wildlife to sandalwood (TIB)  (CHI) 

Chinese Authorities to move controversial dam

Funding for environmental protection in Qinghai announced

Work to begin on Shigatse rail link

China sees little optimism in anti-desert fight

China encouraged to continue ban on tiger trade

China reports bird flu outbreak in poultry in Tibet

China to build permanent Tibetan antelope monitoring station

China reports new bird flu outbreak in TAR

Outrage about fake photograph of antelopes, Tibet railway

Yartsa Gunbou, l’or de la terre du Tibet

Yartsa gunbu, Tibet's underground cash cow (TIB)  (CHI) 

Railway extensions necessary – Puncog tells NPC

Access to Everest in Tibet closed to climbers

China upgrades Everest road ahead of Olympic torch

China: rail link to Nepal via Tibet in 5 years

Quake in Tibetan areas, restrictions still in place

Monks pray for quake victims

Tibetans asked to stop anti-China protests due to earthquake

Tibet leg of torch relay cut short

Everest treks to be limited by China

Black carbon over Tibet

Asia's second largest copper mine to open in Tibet

Nomads to be settled

Six new lines announced for Tibet railway network

Earthquake in Shigatse prefecture

"It reaches into every aspect of rural Tibetan life"
Yartsa gunbu: Chances, challenges and prospects - an interview with Daniel Winkler (TIB) 

China's Chinalco unit to explore, smelt in Tibet

Two earthquakes rattle Shigatse prefecture

Gas pipeline to Lhasa

Plague Kills two in TAR

Two earthquakes stuck close to Lhasa

China Western Mining to start up Yulong copper plant

Shetongmon copper mine awaiting final go-ahead

300,000 Tibetan farmers rehoused

China to build dry port at Tatopani

Tibetan nomads, farmers may be losers in China's ecology protection plan

Chinese bank lends to mines in Tibet

Dam protest in Tawu County

Mine standoff resolved

Protests over mining project, three Tibetans seriously injured

Four arrested in Nepal on charges of poaching

Karmapa appeals for wildlife conservation

Tibet's forests hit by prolonged drought

Seven killed over cordyceps in Nepal

Quarantine lifted from Tsegorthang town

Tibet's mineral deposits estimated at 600bn yuan

Jinshan to acquire Gyama mineral property

China reports major gold discovery in Qinghai

Seismic-monitoring facility in Dingri

China ignoring tiger trade

16,000 nomadic households in Qinghai 'settled'

Dalai Lama appeals to China on drying Tibet rivers

Tibetan antelope hides destroyed "to show anti-poaching resolution"

Major blow against trans-Himalayan wildlife traffic

Nearly half of Qinghai Lake's source-rivers dry up

Report on 'The Impacts of Climate Change on the Tibetan Plateau' released

306,000 Tibetans in 46 counties lose land to China's reforestation projects

Second line of Xining-Golmud section of Golmud-Lhasa railway to open

New mining corporation to expedite key projects in Tibet

Karmapa calls for environment protection

Tibetan nomads from Qinghai "ecological migrants"

Crackdown on illegal surveying and mapping

Earthquake in Jyekundo

Nepal, China, India agree on common strategy to protect Kailash

Devastation in Jyekundo

China to share Tsangpo/Brahmaputra data with India

Quake homeless to wait three years for new homes  

Tibetans say mining at a sacred site prompted earthquake

Tibetans protest over land

China to boost oil production in Qinghai

Tibetans held after mining protest

Landmark sentencing?

Rinchen Samdrup gets five years

Plastic bags banned in Tibet

Production begins at Gyama

Opening the gate to Kailash

Floods disrupt Lhasa train services

Tibetans reject quake plan

Gansu landslide

Firing incident in Palyul county

ITBP suspends two officers held in smuggling case

Widespread flood damages in Lhokha prefecture

China begins Tibet railway extension

Villagers Block Work on Dam

China to spend $4.5bn on minerals exploration

Brahmaputra dam project begun

Wildlife and other concerns; China's push for a foothold on the Nepal-Tibet border

Moderate quake jolts Tibet; no injuries reported

Villagers to be resettled for dam

Kailash conservation framework drafted

UN expert Beijing not to pressurise herders to sell their herds to settle

2.46 million tons of lithium discovered in Tibet

Major hydropower stations in Chamdo to transmit power to China

China focusing on Tibet as major trade frontier

Permission for 21.3GW dam in Sichuan world heritage site

China to develop three major mineral centres in Tibet

Agreement signed to exploit rare mineral near Lhasa

Tibetan rail extension plans

Solar power array in Lhoka

Tibet to double annual investments in water infrastructure

China Gold International announces 2011 exploration plan for its Gyama mine

Regulating the yartsa gunbu business

New hydropower station begins operation

Red sandalwood smuggling on the rise

TAR's largest solar power plant starts operation

Petition against pollution in Kumbum

Nepal to look for uranium near Tibet border

India plans three strategic rail links on northern border

Tibetan Mine Protesters Detained

Tibet's mineral resources to be 'extracted ecologically'

Dams threaten Gansu county

Chinese migrants seize land in Jyekundo

China says Tibetan gold mine amongst largest in Asia

Chinese officials in Tibet clearing forests in Nepal

Foot-and-mouth disease in Tibet

70 ton Sandalwood awaiting transport to Tibet

China to spend $47bn into TAR to 2015

First liquefied natural gas station opens in Tibet

Chinese mining officials open fire on Tibetan workers

Foot-and-mouth disease found in cattle in Tibet

Tibet trade fair concludes I Kathmandu

Earthquake in Tibet

Poachers who killed wildlife guard in 1994 surrender

China confirms bird flu outbreak in Tibet

3.2 billion yuan for "ecological security barrier"

600kg of China-bound orchids seized

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