August 16, 2010 - In August 2010, a deadly mudslide hit Zhuoqu County, a Tibetan area in Gansu Province, China, leaving behind a scene of destruction, more than 700 dead people and over 1000 people missing. Claude Arpi, an independent journalist and commentator of China-India-Tibet issues, connects this environmental disaster to the mega hydro projects in the area, and he warns that large-scale hydroelectric plant construction on the Tibetan Plateau will have far reaching consequences for South Asia. By Claude Arpi more»

Tibet moving on climate change threat

- October 7, 2008 - How exactly does global warming influence the permafrost and glaciers of the Tibetan Plateau - the Third Pole of the earth? What kind of measures are the local government and herders taking to deal with it? With these questions the Climate Change Journalists' Club organised for some journalists from Xinhua News Agency, Science and Technology Daily, China Youth Daily, China Daily, China News Week, Science Times and Caijing Magazine to travel to and report on Tibet during Sept. 9-17, 2008. This is the article published after the trip by Sun Xiaohua in the China Daily. more»