This condition, which often occurs during medical events such as heart failure, can also cause acute altitude sickness; ...

The Tibetan Plateau as a whole is heating up twice as ... and a number of glaciers in the Karakoram Range on the western edge of the plateau are actually advancing. This anomaly may result from ...

The Tibetan Plateau, often referred to as the “roof of the world,” is witnessing a surprising transformation. Many lakes ...

On the southeastern edge of the Tibetan Plateau, at the convergence of the Hengduan Mountains and the Himalayas, abundant moisture creates a unique climate and ecological environment. [Zhao ...

This story appears in the August 2012 issue of National Geographic magazine. The thing Silang is searching for, on hands and knees, 15,000 feet above sea level on the Tibetan plateau, is ...

was run under the present climate to model the potential biomes on the Tibetan Plateau on a 10′ grid. The simulated biome was basically in good agreement with a potential natural vegetation map based ...

The cutting-edge technology can accurately measure ... monitoring for high-altitude glaciers and snow changes. The Tibetan Plateau is Asia’s most important source of water, and this ...

I lived in Ziling, the largest city on the Tibetan Plateau, from 2005 to 2013, teaching in a university, studying Tibetan and supporting local non-government organisations. Most of my research ...

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.

CHANDIGARH: The Tibetan government-in-exile, also known as Kashag, has reinforced its pledge to the Dalai Lama's middle-way ...