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China pushes ahead with huge — and controversial — dam in Tibet
Beijing has approved plans to dam the lower reaches of the Yarlung Tsangpo River, which flows from Tibet into India and Bangladesh, the state-run Xinhua News Agency reported on Wednesday.
China Touts Ambitious Tibetan Dam Project in Economic Plan
China has signaled plans for a hydropower project in Tibet along one of the region’s main rivers, fanning speculation of a ...
Tibet in exile, &c.
March 10 is known as “Tibetan Uprising Day.” The ruling Chinese have done to Tibet what they are now doing in the Xinjiang ...
Daily Express13d
The 1,300-mile long highway that's one of the world's most dangerous
Lantsang River, Nujiang)" and "crosses primaeval forest" with oxygen only half that of sea level due to the altitude. Sichuan-Tibet Highway is not easy for drivers to navigate, and despite its ...
UCA News9d
Tibet lawmakers vow 'high pressure' on alleged separatists
Lawmakers from Tibet have hailed recent economic progress and vowed to keep "high pressure" on alleged separatists in the ...
Increased rainfall and vegetation changes result in sediment shifts at the Roof of the World
The Qinghai-Tibet Plateau occupies an enormous area of Asia and is known as the Roof of the World, owing to an average ...
THE WEEK1mon
China and India's dam war in the Himalayas
in Tibet's Medog county", just before it enters Indian territory (where it's known as the Siang river). For all this "dam for a dam" water war, relations between the two nations along their ...
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China to build world’s largest hydropower dam in Tibet
The Yarlung Zangbo becomes the Brahmaputra river as it leaves Tibet and flows south into India’s Arunachal Pradesh and Assam states and finally into Bangladesh. China has already commenced ...
The Hindu29d
China’s dam project opens the floodgates of concern
The planned construction by China, of a massive hydroelectric dam on the lower section of the upper stream of the Yarlung Zangbo river in Tibet, has become a matter of concern for India due to its ...
The Diplomat1mon
What’s Driving China’s Controversial Mega-Dam in Tibet?
The planned site is on the lower reaches of the Yarlung Tsangpo River in the Tibet Autonomous Region, in the foothills of the Himalayas. The Power Construction Corporation of China (PowerChina ...
Indiatimes29d
Carefully monitoring Chinese mega dam project in the Tibet Autonomous Region: Govt
Taking note of China’s announcement of a mega dam project approved on the lower reaches of the Yarlung Tsangpo (upper reaches of the Brahmaputra) river in the Tibet Autonomous Region ...
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GSA Bulletin: Alaska, Russia, Tibet, the Mississippi River, and the Great Green River Basin
Pulsed Miocene range growth in northeastern Tibet: Insights from Xunhua basin magnetostratigraphy ... polarity of a series of Eocene ash beds from the Greater Green River Basin and its surrounding ...