Solar power is quietly reshaping parts of the Tibetan Plateau, where thin air, intense sunlight, and dry winds have long ...
A local shepherd from Gonghe County in Northwest China’s Qinghai Province, steers his herd not toward a typical grassy field, ...
"The study proposes new ideas." Scientists discover troubling phenomenon that can cause land to sink and slide: 'This is of ...
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 ...
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 ...
On January 24, 54 precious fossils from the Hezheng Paleontological Fossil Museum in Linxia Hui Autonomous Prefecture, Gansu Province, went on display at the Shenzhen Art Museum in Shenzhen, Guangdong ...
A University of Alberta physicist who helped solve the age-old mystery of what keeps afloat the highest plateau on earth has added more pieces to the Tibetan puzzle. Dr. Martyn Unsworth has uncovered ...