China recently approved the construction of the world's largest hydropower dam, across the Yarlung Tsangpo river in Tibet. When fully up and running, it will be the world's largest power plant—by some ...

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 ...

In a weather manipulation experiment conducted on the Tibetan Plateau last year, the researchers, led by Professor Wang Guangqian from the university’s State Key Laboratory of Hydro-science and ...