Scientists have warned that there is a rising risk of extreme weather events as a result of the Tibetan Plateau becoming warmer and wetter. The plateau is sometimes described as the “Asian water ...

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.

Researchers in China have uncovered 55,000-year-old advanced tools, suggesting an unknown human species matched Neanderthal ...

A multidisciplinary study led by researchers from the Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research of the Chinese Academy of ...

Have you ever heard of—or even seen—red lightning? These are not animated characters but real atmospheric phenomena known as electrical discharges that occur high above thunderstorms.

The Tibetan Plateau and the Rocky Mountains not only determine the evolution of SPR in East Asia and North America, respectively, but also exert a remote influence on each other's rainfall patterns.

Researchers have uncovered the first definitive evidence of Middle Paleolithic Quina technology in East Asia, shedding ...

"While archaeologists and anthropologists long considered Eastern and Southeastern Asia to be cultural 'backwaters ... on the southwestern edge of the Tibetan Plateau, uncovered hundreds of ...