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The Earth's Third Pole

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Called the Earth's Third Pole by scientists, as only the North and South poles hold more glacially stored freshwater, the Tibetan Plateau is undergoing climate change twice as fast as the rest of the world. Glacier meltdown across Tibet is disrupting downstream water supplies, threatening the sustainable livelihoods of Tibetan nomads and villages, and putting the lives of more than one billion downstream peoples and communities across south and east Asia at risk.

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China's Policy of Displacing Tibetan Nomads Exposed

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China's Policy of Displacing Tibetan Nomads Exposed from Students for a Free Tibet on Vimeo.

 
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Tibetan Nomads

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Tibet's nomads, who have already lived sustainably on the Roof of the World for thousands of years, are thus essential to the long-term restoration, conservation and health of the very ecosystems and resources that China so desperately craves - and for which China invaded Tibet in 1949. Yet China continues to crush any voice, in Tibet and around the world, that dares speak up for Tibet's environment, for Tibetans' environmental human rights, and for all downstream communities affected by China's actions.
 

CLIMATE NEWS

  • Nicknamed “the Third Pole,” Asia’s Tibetan Plateau contains the world’s largest persistent ice mass outside of the Arctic and Antarctica. On January 5, 2007, the Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission…
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  • Scientists call Tibet the Earth’s Third Pole because it is home to some 40,000 glaciers, storing more freshwater than any other region except the North and South poles. These same…
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  • Policy Implications of Current Dam Projects on Drichu – the Upper Yangtze River
    Tashi Tsering and Tibet Justice Center, 2004
    As important as the development of the Yangtze River is…
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  • Climate Change: Evidence from the Roof of the World The Tibetan Plateau and greater Himalayan region are warming twice as fast as the rest of the world.
    Evidence…
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POLITICAL PRISONERS

More than 700 Tibetan's are currently detained as Political Prisoners

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Writer & Photographer: Imprisoned for 5 years for documenting Tibet's environmental degradation