China approved the world's largest hydropower project to begin construction, citing the economic benefits and need to shift ...

R esearchers uncovered evidence that ancient humans survived on the Tibetan Plateau during the coldest period of the past 2.5 million years, demonstrating their resilience and ada ...

The Tibetan Plateau as a whole is heating up twice as ... when it supplies a greater portion of the flow in every river from the Yangtze (which irrigates more than half of China's rice) to the ...

Bones dating back 25,000 years suggest that humans lived in extremely icy conditions in Tibet, which were previously thought ...

Most of Asia's major rivers find their source on the Tibetan plateau. However as the global ... of such rivers as the Yangtse, the Yellow River, the Mekong, the Salween, the Irrawaddy, the Indus ...

The researchers unearthed 427 artefacts, including stone tools and the first ochre pieces- the red-coloured rock used in ...

The researchers, led by the Chinese Academy of Sciences’ Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research ... regions – including the Indus and Ganges River basins, which are vital for agriculture ...

People on the Tibetan Plateau have developed unique physiological traits over 10,000 years to thrive in low-oxygen conditions, preventing hypoxia. A study showed that intermediate hemoglobin ...

BEIJING--China has approved the construction of what will be the world’s largest hydropower dam, kicking off an ambitious project on the eastern rim of the Tibetan plateau that could affect ...