As snowpack depletes, vulnerable communities have less access to water. One study already predicted that 66% of the global ...

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 ...

A buried wedge of stiff mantle rock might be the reason why the Himalayas and the Tibetan Plateau have stayed so high for ...

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

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

It’s not called the Third Pole for nothing. The Tibetan Plateau forms the major portion of a vast upland area of ice and glaciers that covers some 100,000 square kilometers of Earth’s surface. It is a ...

Using excavated artifacts, Ambrose (pictured) and his team discovered that there was a long-distance cultural exchange between the Tibetan plateau and northern China. The Tibetan plateau—the world’s ...

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.