Tibetans often use the term Tibet to refer to a large Tibetan ethnic, linguistic, cultural, and historical area that includes what is now known as the Tibet Autonomous Region (TAR) and Tibetan areas ...

Just back from a trip to the Tibetan areas of Qinghai province, where things are very tense in the wake of the new year holiday. Celebrations were largely aborted by Tibetans to commemorate the ...

This study is led by Prof. Guangsheng Zhou (State Key Laboratory of Severe Weather, Chinese Academy of Meteorological Sciences) and Prof. Hongrui Ren (Department of Geomatics, Taiyuan University of ...

The team focused on two intermountain basins within the Gangdise Mountains in the southern part of the plateau, known as the "roof of the world." The sedimentary layers in these basins function like ...

Actor Hu Ge, who has volunteered with Green River — an influential environmental NGO — since 2013, was a natural fit for the ...

image: A paper published in SCIENCE CHINA: Earth Sciences estimated the land use changes on the Tibetan Plateau during the peak carbon period (2021-2040), the carbon neutral period (2051-2070) and the ...

Climate warming and permafrost thawing on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau (QTP) have changed the distributive features of permafrost, which leads to alterations in soil moisture and permeability, and exerts ...

The Chinese mountain cat (Felis bieti) is a little-known felid found only on the eastern edge of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, in northwestern China. The species was first photographed in the wild in ...