This story appears in the April 2010 issue of National Geographic magazine ... 37,000 glaciers on the Chinese side alone, the Tibetan Plateau and its surrounding arc of mountains contain the ...

In a nutshell Photographers in Tibet captured 105 red sprites above a single thunderstorm in South Asia—the highest number ...

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.

This story appears in the August 2012 issue of National Geographic magazine. The thing Silang is searching for, on hands and knees, 15,000 feet above sea level on the Tibetan plateau, is ...

Ding highlighted the Luolong Basin's strategic location in a transitional zone between the central and eastern Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, making it crucial for understanding plateau uplift and climate ...

In May 2022, members of the Second Tibetan Plateau Scientific Expedition and Research (STEP) reached the top of Mount Qomolangma. Led by Tandong Yao, a professor of physical geography at the ...

graduated with a PhD in Geography in 2020. He is an Assitant Professor in the Department of Tourism at Qinghai Minzu University. He researches primarily the intersection of environmentalism, ...

On the southeastern edge of the Tibetan Plateau, at the convergence of the Hengduan Mountains and the Himalayas, abundant moisture creates a unique climate and ecological environment. [Zhao ...