At the top of the world, there is a sea—the remains of one, at least. The summit rocks of Mount Everest, the highest ...
Full Waveform Inversion (FWI) is capable of finely characterizing the velocity structure, anisotropy, viscoelasticity, and attenuation properties of subsurface media, which provides critical ...
The plot of the Hollywood doomsday film, 2012 – where China builds survival arks on the Tibetan Plateau – is edging closer to reality with Beijing’s latest plan for getting through a global ...
China’s glacier area has shrunk by 26% since 1960 due to rapid global warming, with 7,000 small glaciers disappearing ...
China approved the world's largest hydropower project to begin construction, citing the economic benefits and need to shift ...
Glaciers around the globe are disappearing faster than ever, with the last three-year period seeing the largest glacial mass ...
Turning the “roof of the world” into an agricultural stronghold. Chinese government scientists are exploring ways to scale up farming on the Tibetan Plateau, so that the world’s second-most populous ...
An interesting phenomenon is unfolding at the top of the world. Lakes on the Tibetan Plateau — sitting at more than 14,700 ...