For Ning, Tibet is no passive utopia. It’s the uneasy cultural crossroads where globalisation, spirituality and the political ...

Holding particular biological resources, the Tibetan Plateau is a unique geologic-geographic-biotic interactively unite and hence plays an important role in the global biodiversity domain. The Tibetan ...

Researchers from Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences synthesize current understanding of how climate ...

The Qinghai-Tibet plateau (QTP) is the largest and highest plateau in the world, and is an important center for biodiversity that houses an array of ...

Intrepid hunter-gatherers may have lived permanently in the cold, harsh environment of the oxygen-starved Tibetan Plateau at least 7,400 years ago — nearly 4,000 years earlier than researchers had ...

People hunted and foraged year-round in the thin air of China’s Tibetan Plateau at least 7,400 to 8,400 years ago, a new study suggests. And permanent settlers of the high-altitude region might even ...

Plant fossils discovered in rocks from the Tibetan Plateau and a new analysis of the area’s geochemistry are rewriting the uplift history of the region dubbed the “roof of the world.” This new ...

An industrial construction site on the upper Mekong, with a Tibetan village on the opposite bank, 2011. Credit: Scott Ezell Subscribe for ads-free reading In 2004, I traveled a thousand miles in the ...

China has begun constructing the Yarlung Tsangpo Hydropower Project in Tibet, poised to become the world's most powerful ...

So far Denisovans were only known from a small collection of fossil fragments from Denisova Cave in Siberia. A research team now describes a 160,000-year-old hominin mandible from Xiahe in China.

An earthquake of magnitude 3.4 struck Tibet on Wednesday afternoon, as reported by the National Center for Seismology (NCS). In a post on X, the NCS shared that the earthquake occurred at a depth of ...