and its presence in remote areas like the Tibetan Plateau shows the vast reach of human impact on the environment," explained ...

Bones dating back 25,000 years suggest that humans lived in extremely icy conditions in Tibet, which were previously thought to be uninhabitable ...

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.

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

exploring geology, geophysics and geochemistry of the Alps, the Iranian Plateau, the Tibetan Plateau, the India–Myanmar Range, and northwest Australia along the ancient Tethyan region.

Mountain Research and Development, Vol. 21, No. 1 (Feb., 2001), pp. 61-68 (8 pages) The Yaluzangbu River, the largest river on the Tibetan Plateau, becomes the Brahmaputra when it flows into India.

China’s glacier area has shrunk by 26% since 1960 due to rapid global warming, with 7,000 small glaciers disappearing ...

Impacts of the Himalayas’ topographic complexity on the moisture transport and precipitation across the Tibetan Plateau during summer, compared to the smooth estimated topography from coarse ...

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 ...

Although their distinctive traits have long been recognized, the correlation between these traits and their adaptation to the Tibetan plateau environment ... UAB's Department of Geology.