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.

With nearly 37,000 glaciers on the Chinese side alone, the Tibetan Plateau and its surrounding ... supplies could reduce cereal yields in South Asia by 5 percent within three decades.

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