China is not merely policing dissent or curbing religious practice, but attempting something more permanent.

A study of the world's highest geological feature, the Tibetan Plateau, sometimes called the "roof of the world," has determined that the plateau rose to its current height much earlier than ...

High on the Tibetan Plateau, where the air feels thin in a way that is hard to describe unless you’ve stood there, human life ...

The once alpine grasslands where herders moved freely and grazed across a boundless horizon are now covered by rows of solar ...

The vast Tibetan Plateau -- the world's highest and largest plateau, bordered by the world's highest mountains -- has long challenged geologists trying to understand how and when the region rose to ...

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 ...

Tibetan Plateau vortices (TPVs) are key drivers of precipitation over the Tibetan Plateau (TP), triggering heavy precipitation both locally and in downstream regions. This work reveals that an early ...

A research team led by Prof. Ding Lin from the Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has systematically explained the differential uplift process and its related ...

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 ...

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 ...

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) ...