This story appears in the April 2010 issue of National Geographic magazine. The gods must be furious. It's the only explanation that makes sense to Jia Son, a Tibetan farmer surveying the ...

The Tibetan Plateau is one of Earth's harshest environments, encompassing nearly a million square miles of land thrust two and a half miles skyward, blanketed in cold, thin air that's difficult to ...

The growing Tibetan Plateau since the Cenozoic has shifted the life's history by changing the regional geography and global climate; however, little is known about the details of the process.

Presentation by Kenneth Bauer, Anthropology, Dartmouth College. Drawing upon fieldwork in western Nepal, the Tibet Autonomous Region, and the eastern Tibetan Plateau as well as historical and ...

The answer lies in a unique mix of geography, safety, and technical challenges that make Tibet one of the least flown-over regions in the world.Tibet sits on the highest plateau on Earth, with an ...

The Tibetan Plateau supports a vast expanse of rolling meadows and grassy steppes that are nearly 3 miles (4,500 meters or 14,700 feet), on average, above sea level. Well above the tree line, these ...

The Tibetan Plateau -- the world's largest, highest, and flattest plateau -- had a larger initial extent than previously documented, Earth scientists have demonstrated. Known as the "Roof of the ...

Chinese scientists say Tibetan Plateau, ... National Geographic reported in 2010 that one glacier was retreating by about 300 meters a year, the length of a U.S. football field.