Environment
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Karma Samdrup, Wrongfully Imprisoned Tibetan Environmentalist, Freed After 15 Years
Prominent Tibetan environmentalist and philanthropist, Karma Samdrup, has been released after serving a 15-year prison sentence. Detained on January 7, 2010, Karma was sentenced on June 24, 2010, by the Yanqi Hui Autonomous County People’s Court in Xinjiang, a region that has long been a site of tension for Tibetans. His sentence, which was initially…
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Tibetan Plateau is being impacted by climate change.
A new analysis released on Tuesday criticized China, the world’s largest producer and user of coal, cement, and steel, for climate change throughout the Tibetan Plateau, the world’s ‘third pole,’ in the run-up to the Glasgow climate negotiations (COP26) and the present UN biodiversity summit. It claims that climate change has a significant influence on…
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Tibetan Plateau’s freshwater lakes operate as heat collectors, collecting heat from the sun.
The Tibetan Plateau is the world’s highest and largest plateau, it is also known as the roof of the world. It is home to the world’s largest alpine lake system. Lakes influence the flow of heat between the land and the atmosphere, affecting regional temperatures and precipitation, according to researchers. However, little is known about…
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A significant portion of the Amazon Rainforest has now ‘flipped’ to emitting more CO2 than it absorbs.
Researchers reported on Wednesday that climate change and deforestation have flipped a large swath of the Amazon basin from absorbing to emitting planet-warming carbon dioxide (CO2), a transformation that could turn humanity’s greatest natural ally in the fight against global warming into a foe. They reported in the journal Nature that hundreds of high-altitude air…