Tibet is situated on the Tibet Plateau, which includes parts of neighboring Chinese provinces Qinghai, Sichuan, Gansu and Yunnan. These areas used to be part of Tibet until Chinese rule.

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.

The team from the Aerospace Information Research Institute of the Chinese Academy of Sciences used airborne ice radar, also ...

China has approved the construction of what will be the world's largest hydropower dam, kicking off an ambitious project on ...