Solar power is quietly reshaping parts of the Tibetan Plateau, where thin air, intense sunlight, and dry winds have long ...
"The study proposes new ideas." Scientists discover troubling phenomenon that can cause land to sink and slide: 'This is of ...
Tibet, January 24 (ANI): An earthquake of magnitude 3.0 struck Tibet on Saturday, a statement by the National Center for ...
Research from Monash University reveals the climate history behind Asia's summer monsoon—Earth's most influential climate system. In a new study published in npj Climate and Atmospheric Science, an ...
An industrial construction site on the upper Mekong, with a Tibetan village on the opposite bank, 2011. Credit: Scott Ezell In 2004, I traveled a thousand miles in the eastern Tibetan plateau by local ...
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 ...
The vast Tibetan Plateau–the world’s highest and largest plateau, bordered by the world’s highest mountains–has long challenged geologists trying to understand how and when the region rose to such ...