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 ...

Tibetan Buddhism is a distinct form of Buddhism that developed on the Tibetan Plateau. It blends Indian Buddhist philosophy ...

In many regions, climate change has advanced the timing of spring events, such as flowering or the unfolding of leaves. But the meadows and steppes of the Tibetan Plateau are bucking that trend — ...

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 ...

Scientists have warned that the Tibetan Plateau is becoming warmer and wetter, raising the risk of extreme weather events. The plateau is sometimes described as the “Asian water tower”, because it is ...

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

Construction of multiple telescopes has begun on Saishiteng Mountain—near the town of Lenghu in the Qinghai province of China. The site could be China’s first major observatory, on par with those in ...

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 ...

A new paper by archaeologists at UC Davis highlights that our extinct cousins, the Denisovans, reached the “roof of the world” about 160,000 years ago — 120,000 years earlier than previous estimates ...