In this episode of Next Meridian, we trade the lush rainforests of Nepal for the high-altitude, remote northern Tibetan ...
Land use change is closely related to human activities, affecting ecological environment and species diversity, and how to make scientific observations and simulations to predict it has become a focal ...
Holding particular biological resources, the Tibetan Plateau is a unique geologic-geographic-biotic interactive unit and hence plays an important role in the global biodiversity domain. The Tibetan ...
The Medog Hydropower Project faces the risk of structural failure because it is being built on an active seismic zone in ...
Tibetan antelopes live at high elevations where the partial pressure of oxygen is roughly half that at sea level — how do they do this? An adult male Tibetan antelope or chiru (Pantholops hodgsonii) ...
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 ...
The CCP’s religious and cultural repression on the Tibetan Plateau is also feeding an ecological crisis. The response from the world has been a deafening silence. Days before the earthquake, in late ...
The Tibetan Plateau represents the archetype of continent–continent collision, having formed through the ongoing convergence of the Indian and Eurasian plates since the mid-Mesozoic. Its present‐day ...
Geoscientists have long puzzled over the mechanism that created the Tibetan Plateau, but a new study finds that the landform's history may be controlled primarily by the strength of the tectonic ...
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 ...
Archaeologists Uncover Legendary Golden Armor Once Dismissed as Myth ...
The Nagqu break-in ended without injuries, and the owner has reportedly moved to “bear-proof” the hotel.