It is a critical situation. Scientists issue warning about looming threat to water supply for 1.5 billion people — here's ...

A buried wedge of stiff mantle rock might be the reason why the Himalayas and the Tibetan Plateau have stayed so high for ...

After eight months, Javier Carrasco and his partner have covered 12,000km across Europe, China, and Central Asia. They have ...

Extensive construction near Golmud in Qinghai reveals China's latest military buildup, enhancing its missile reach. Satellite ...

It’s not called the Third Pole for nothing. The Tibetan Plateau forms the major portion of a vast upland area of ice and glaciers that covers some 100,000 square kilometers of Earth’s surface. It is a ...

Using excavated artifacts, Ambrose (pictured) and his team discovered that there was a long-distance cultural exchange between the Tibetan plateau and northern China. The Tibetan plateau—the world’s ...

Holding particular biological resources, the Tibetan Plateau is a unique geologic-geographic-biotic interactively unite and hence plays an important role in the global biodiversity domain. The Tibetan ...

Scientists found a 160,000-year-old jawbone from a human ancestor in a Tibetan cave. It might explain why Tibetans today can live at high altitudes.

China’s pillage of fragile ecosystems like the Tibetan Plateau stands as a stark warning for Myanmar if Chinese development ...