An earthquake of magnitude 4.0 on Richter Scale jolted Tibet on Sunday, a statement by the National Center for Seismology said.As per the NCS, the earthquake occurred at a depth of 10km, making it ...

With nearly 37,000 glaciers on the Chinese side alone, the Tibetan Plateau and its surrounding arc of mountains contain the largest volume of ice outside the polar regions. This ice gives birth to ...

Chinese scientists have pieced together the dramatic geographical changes of the Luolong Basin in the eastern part of the ...

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 ...

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 ...

Researchers have used tree rings to track rainfall patterns on the Tibetan Plateau over the course of almost 3,500 years and found a link between major changes and the downfall of some of the most ...

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 ...