The Yarlung Tansgpo / Brahmaputra dam shows we often don’t know how to deal with rivers that cross national borders.

The Yarlung Tansgpo / Brahmaputra dam shows we often don’t know how to deal with rivers that cross national borders.

Located in the transitional zone between the Loess Plateau and the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, the site is on a flat platform in front of the Jiulong Mountain, with the Taohe River, a branch of the Yellow ...

A paper published in National Science Review highlights the role of China's natural terrestrial ecosystems (NTEs) as ...

Scientists have warned that there is a rising risk of extreme weather events as a result of the Tibetan Plateau becoming warmer ... of extreme weather events in China”, Yao Tandong, the leader ...

Stone tools unearthed in southwest China helped a mysterious group eke ... on the southwestern edge of the Tibetan Plateau, uncovered hundreds of stone artifacts from two trenches dug into the ...

Scientists from the Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) have compared several methods ...

Scientists use fossil pollen to study ancient plant diversity and guide future conservation action strategies worldwide.

The best time to visit Tibet is from June to August. Situated high on a plateau, Tibet experiences low temperatures and frost for the majority of the year. Summer is the only time where ...

Pakistan’s far north holds some of the world’s highest peaks and has a proud cultural identity, but until now international ...

Mannar Island, which is home to some of the world’s most beautiful migratory bird species including flamingoes, was proposed ...