where snow and ice are less vulnerable to small temperature increases. The gaps in scientific knowledge are still great, and in the Tibetan Plateau they are deepened by the region's remoteness and ...

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

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

Collaborative project, entitled "Remote sensing monitoring and early warning system on snow-caused disasters for the pastoral agriculture area in Tibetan Plateau, China," led by Dr. Tiangang Liang at ...

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

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 ...

What's a better way to welcome the first official day of winter? Snow. New York City woke up to its first measurable snow of ...

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 ...