China approved the world's largest hydropower project to begin construction, citing the economic benefits and need to shift ...

R esearchers uncovered evidence that ancient humans survived on the Tibetan Plateau during the coldest period of the past 2.5 million years, demonstrating their resilience and ada ...

Tibet's Qamdo Bamba Airport is considered the world's lonelist airports in the world, although there are other contenders for ...

Have you ever heard of—or even seen—red lightning? These are not animated characters but real atmospheric phenomena known as ...

Qinghai Hoh Xil, located in the northeastern extremity of the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau, is the largest and highest plateau in the world. This extensive area of alpine mountains and steppe systems is ...

The Qinghai-Tibet Plateau occupies an enormous area of Asia and is known as the Roof of the World, owing to an average ...

The region is prone to seismic activity due to tectonic plate collisions, with earthquakes regularly impacting the area.

I lived in Ziling, the largest city on the Tibetan Plateau, from 2005 to 2013, teaching in a university, studying Tibetan and supporting local non-government organisations. Most of my research ...

Chinese scientists have pieced together the dramatic geographical changes of the Luolong Basin in the eastern part of the ...

Sampling was carried out at the Haibei Alpine Meadow Ecosystem Research Station in Qinghai province, located in the northeast of Qinghai-Tibet Plateau (37°37′N, 101°12E’) in a valley ...