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.

One of the highest, harshest trails in Asia, it marched up out of China's verdant valleys, traversed the wind-stripped, snow-scoured Tibetan Plateau, forded the freezing Yangtze, Mekong ...

These nimble antelopes are high-altitude specialists found only on the Qinghai–Tibet Plateau. For years, Shangzhen made the long, arduous journey to observe them there. Here he drew the contrasting ...

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The U.N. process shows little appetite for addressing the urgent climate crisis on the Tibetan Plateau – in part due to China ...

Chinese state-owned power producer China Huadian Corporation has launched the second phase of its Caipeng Solar-Storage Power ...

Situated high on a plateau, Tibet experiences low temperatures and ... Roads to remote attractions may be blocked due to snow, some restaurants close for the season and oxygen content is lower ...

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

Beijing has approved plans to dam a gorge in the Himalayas that is three times as deep as the Grand Canyon, despite concerns ...

Authorities have not indicated how many people the Tibet project would displace and how it would affect the local ecosystem, one of the richest and most diverse on the plateau. But according to ...