With nearly 37,000 glaciers on the Chinese side alone, the Tibetan Plateau and its surrounding arc of mountains contain the largest volume of ice outside the polar regions. This ice gives birth to ...

China approved the world's largest hydropower project to begin construction, citing the economic benefits and need to shift ...

Researchers uncovered evidence that ancient humans survived on the Tibetan Plateau during the coldest period of the past 2.5 million years, demonstrating their resilience and adaptability.

Scientists have warned that there is a rising risk of extreme weather events as a result of the Tibetan Plateau becoming warmer and wetter. The plateau is sometimes described as the “Asian water ...

An earthquake of magnitude 4.5 on the Richter Scale struck Tibet on Monday, the National Center for Seismology (NCS) reported ...

was run under the present climate to model the potential biomes on the Tibetan Plateau on a 10′ grid. The simulated biome was basically in good agreement with a potential natural vegetation map based ...

Ding highlighted the Luolong Basin's strategic location in a transitional ... distribution of the Central Tibetan Valley, extending it from the central plateau to the broader eastern Xizang ...