“Tibet’s mountains were shaken when eighty thousand Chinese troops descended upon the plateau like a dark wave, overpowering ...

The U.N. process shows little appetite for addressing the urgent climate crisis on the Tibetan Plateau – in part due to China’s apathy. On November 12, at the 29th Conference of the Parties (COP29) to ...

Extensive construction near Golmud in Qinghai reveals China's latest military buildup, enhancing its missile reach. Satellite ...

China’s pillage of fragile ecosystems like the Tibetan Plateau stands as a stark warning for Myanmar if Chinese development ...

A buried wedge of stiff mantle rock might be the reason why the Himalayas and the Tibetan Plateau have stayed so high for ...

A new geological model revolutionizes a century of theories: a rigid wedge of mantle keeps the Himalayas standing.

An earthquake of magnitude 3.6 struck Tibet on Wednesday, as reported by the National Centre for Seismology (NCS).

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 ...

It’s not called the Third Pole for nothing. The Tibetan Plateau forms the major portion of a vast upland area of ice and glaciers that covers some 100,000 square kilometers of Earth’s surface. It is a ...