Most of Asia's major rivers find their source on the Tibetan plateau. However as the global temperature rises, Tibet’s glaciers are melting and grassland permafrost is thawing at an alarming rate.

He will share his work titled "Nature Conservation and Public Participation: Practices of a Grassroots Environmental NGO on the Tibetan Plateau." This event is open to faculty, graduate students, and ...

Climate change and land-use disturbances are supposed to have severely affected the degraded alpine grasslands on the Tibetan Plateau. Artificial grassland establishment has been implemented as a ...

Introduction: Grazing activities were intensive in alpine grasslands and may alter the soil respiration rates across the Tibetan Plateau. However, grazed alpine grassland soil respiration rates and ...

Members of a team consisting of five Tibetan women inspect cultural relics in Nagqu Prefecture, Southwest China's Xizang ...

The Chinese government has targeted private-owned educational institutes that support Tibetan language and culture as part of ...

A new study has found that for the past 10,000 years, populations on the Tibetan Plateau have developed particular adaptations to survive in the low-oxygen conditions surrounding the region.

The findings identified that warm and cold spring in the Tibetan Plateau leads to wet or dry summers in Southern China ...

People on the Tibetan Plateau have developed unique physiological traits over 10,000 years to thrive in low-oxygen conditions, preventing hypoxia. A study showed that intermediate hemoglobin ...

In June 2024, southern China experienced record-breaking heavy rainfall, resulting in devastating societal and economic ...