China has begun construction on the world’s largest hydropower dam, known as the Motuo Hydropower Station, on the eastern ...

The Tibetan plateau, which is also known in China as the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, the Qing-Zang Plateau or the Himalayan Plateau, is the third least-populous place on earth—only surpassed by Antarctica ...

Using the dam on the Yarlung Tsangpo to share electricity could carry ‘significant strategic value’ for Beijing, analysts say ...

In 2004, I traveled a thousand miles in the eastern Tibetan plateau by local bus, hitchhiking, and finally on a second-hand motorcycle, which I rode over 17,000-foot passes so remote I felt like ...

The Tibetan Plateau (TP) in central Asia has an average elevation of more than 4000 m asl and an area of approximately 2,500,000 km 2, and is now called "the Third Pole" of the Earth and the "Asian ...

The authorities have not said how many people will be displaced and how it will affect the ecosystem. Read more at ...

By building a gigantic dam just before the river exits Chinese-controlled territory, Beijing gains the power to manipulate ...

With delicate diplomatic handling, this 'project of the century' can build goodwill and help South Asia's water-dependent economies When Premier Li Qiang broke ground for the construction of the ...

Climate change-induced water loss in the Tibetan Plateau further challenges water security from Central to Southeast Asia. By Genevieve Donnellon-May September 17, 2022 Credit: Depositphotos ...

A snow leopard cub was born to first-time parents Nubra and Yashin on June 10 at the Chester Zoo in England, according to a ...

The Chinese Communist Party is looking to control the next Dalai Lama, the highest spiritual head under Tibetan Buddhism, to legitimize its 1950 occupation of Tibet, a remote land in the world's ...

Millions of people depend on water from the glaciers of High-Mountain Asia. South-eastern Tibet, however, has some of the most rapidly melting glaciers in Asia. This is due to less summer snowfall ...