It is a critical situation. Scientists issue warning about looming threat to water supply for 1.5 billion people — here's ...

China’s stewardship of the Third Pole will shape not only Asia’s water security but the credibility of global climate ...

The Tibetan Plateau is the highest plateau in the world. This immense land area lies surrounded by some of the tallest ...

Extensive construction near Golmud in Qinghai reveals China's latest military buildup, enhancing its missile reach. Satellite images confirm rapid development of a PLARF complex, aiming to boost China ...

After eight months, Javier Carrasco and his partner have covered 12,000km across Europe, China, and Central Asia. They have ...

China’s pillage of fragile ecosystems like the Tibetan Plateau stands as a stark warning for Myanmar if Chinese development ...

Intrepid hunter-gatherers may have lived permanently in the cold, harsh environment of the oxygen-starved Tibetan Plateau at least 7,400 years ago — nearly 4,000 years earlier than researchers had ...

Scientists found a 160,000-year-old jawbone from a human ancestor in a Tibetan cave. It might explain why Tibetans today can live at high altitudes.

Early Tibetan Plateau settlers managed to survive at high elevation at least 7,400 years ago, before the development of an agricultural economy between 5,200-3,600 years ago. Humans likely established ...

Denisovans – an extinct sister group of Neandertals - were discovered in 2010, when a research team led by Svante Pääbo from the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology (MPI-EVA) sequenced ...