The Chinese authorities, as part of their suppression of Tibetans’ basic rights, have taken aim at privately run educational ...

The Tibetan Plateau, often called the "roof of the world," continues to baffle geologists and others curious about Earth’s ...

Archaeologists have discovered 4,800-year-old relics in the earliest known lakeside settlement in Tibet, officially the Xizang Autonomous Region of China, dating back thousands of years. The site, ...

The Yellow River, which stretches from the Tibetan Plateau to the Bohai Sea in China, is so called because of the color lent ...

China is building the world's largest hydropower dam, the Motuo Hydropower Station, in Tibet near the Indian border. This ...

The hydropower dam, in quake-prone Tibet, is set to be the world’s biggest. But China has said little about the project, ...

Understanding how alpine wetlands are degrading is crucial for evaluating the full impact of climate change on these fragile ...

Most of Asia's major rivers find their source on the Tibetan plateau. However as the global temperature rises, Tibet’s glaciers are melting and grassland permafrost is thawing at an alarming rate.

For example, how the different species factor in, etc. The study tries to assess how the rise of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau affected patterns of bird migration between their breeding and wintering ...

The application of these results will contribute to the sustainable improvement of the near-natural restoration of grasslands on the Tibetan Plateau. Figure 1. Spatial distribution of sampling sites.

BEIJING - Chinese authorities in Tibet have detected problems, including cracks, at five out of 14 hydropower dams that they have inspected since a 6.8-magnitude earthquake rocked the south-west ...

As the Tibetan government-in-exile at Dharamshala is planning to issue a map of Tibet with original names of places and boundaries to counter China’s cartographic aggression, Sikyong (president ...