A #cinema #documentary #anthropology question:
Years ago I saw a low-budget doc about anthropologists visiting Zanskar #Tibet before the first Chinese road arrived. They interviewed the king, a doctor, and a kind elder who only wanted to talk gossip and kept refilling their barley beers.
Today all I can find by Search are glowing big-budget praises of China in Tibet.
Does anyone else recall that earlier doc?
High Mountain Asia's melting glaciers may threaten future water security
#Glaciers in High Mountain #Asia—a region encompassing the #Tibet'an Plateau and its surrounding mountain ranges—are shrinking rapidly, endangering #water resources for millions of people, suggests a new study. Using satellite data from NASA's GRACE missions, results show that these extensive glacier systems, often called the "water towers of Asia," experienced significant losses in mass between 2002 and 2023.
https://phys.org/news/2026-04-high-mountain-asia-glaciers-threaten.html
Glaciers in High Mountain Asia—a region encompassing the Tibetan Plateau and its surrounding mountain ranges—are shrinking rapidly, endangering water resources for millions of people, suggests a new study. Using satellite data from NASA's GRACE missions, results show that these extensive glacier systems, often called the "water towers of Asia," experienced significant losses in mass between 2002 and 2023. These findings reveal that if the extreme conditions that led to this decline continue, enhanced glacier melt could intensify short-term flood risks and substantially reduce long-term meltwater availability. The researchers say the findings underscore the need for reduced greenhouse gas emissions to stave off glacier melt and preserve a larger fraction of the region's cryospheric water storage.
In #Tibet entsteht auf 4.550 Metern das weltweit höchstgelegene #Solarthermie-Kraftwerk.
Die Parabolrinnen-Anlage mit #Flüssigsalzspeicher soll 50 Megawatt leisten und auch nach Sonnenuntergang Strom liefern. Der thermische Speicher stabilisiert das Netz und mindert die Intermittenz von #ErneuerbareEnergien.
Trotz extremer Bedingungen soll das Projekt ab 2027 jährlich 719 Millionen Kilowattstunden erzeugen und den #CO2-Ausstoß deutlich senken.
KATHMANDU — In the rugged mountains of the Dolpo region in western Nepal, Youngdung Jhama Lama spent her childhood herding nagton (domesticated yaks) across the vast alpine pastures. Two decades on, mobile herding has greatly changed. “We only have four yaks left now,” said the 24-year-old resident of Vijer (Tra) village in Nepal’s largest and […]
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