Two geological wonders from China have been designated UNESCO Global Geoparks, the National Forestry and Grassland ...

Chinese researchers have revealed that the Tibetan Plateau is expected to experience accelerated warming in the next 10 years ...

Two geological wonders from China have been designated UNESCO Global Geoparks, the National Forestry and Grassland ...

Molecular analysis has determined that a jawbone recovered off Taiwan's coast came from a Denisovan, showing that this ...

The Yarlung Tansgpo / Brahmaputra dam shows we often don’t know how to deal with rivers that cross national borders.

Camouflage is a common defensive strategy among animals. By modifying their coloration and patterning, animals evade ...

Our team, led by Hao Li of the Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research and Qijun Ruan of the Yunnan Provincial Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology, excavated Quina scrapers and related stone ...

The Plateau State Government has awarded a N30 billion contract for the rehabilitation and construction of conservation structures at the Langtang Dam to address water scarcity in the southern ...

The plot of the Hollywood doomsday film, 2012 – where China builds survival arks on the Tibetan Plateau – is edging closer to reality with Beijing’s latest plan for getting through a global ...

A strange “red lightning” phenomenon photographed from near a lake site in the southern Tibetan plateau in 2022 was driven by thunderstorms over the Himalayan region, scientists discover in a ...

At that time, the Tibetan Plateau was already a land of mountains. Earlier convergence between the Eurasian plate and oceanic crust underlying the Tethys would have built mountains with a chain of ...