Water scarcity is emerging as a critical constraint on global energy production, shaping shale, power generation, hydrogen, ...

The first humans venturing onto the Tibetan Plateau, often called the “roof of the world,” faced one of the most brutal environments our species can endure. At an average elevation of over 4,500 ...

Tibetan antelopes live at high elevations where the partial pressure of oxygen is roughly half that at sea level — how do they do this? An adult male Tibetan antelope or chiru (Pantholops hodgsonii) ...

Beautiful moments unfold high on the Tibetan Plateau as Sophia and I share an unforgettable date surrounded by mountains, ...

An industrial construction site on the upper Mekong, with a Tibetan village on the opposite bank, 2011. Credit: Scott Ezell Subscribe for ads-free reading In 2004, I traveled a thousand miles in the ...

An earthquake of magnitude 4.1 struck Tibet in the early hours of Friday, according to the National Centre for Seismology (NCS). The tremor occurred at 3:10 am IST on May 8 at a depth of 38 kilometres ...

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The CCP’s religious and cultural repression on the Tibetan Plateau is also feeding an ecological crisis. The response from the world has been a deafening silence. Days before the earthquake, in late ...

A University of Alberta physicist who helped solve the age-old mystery of what keeps afloat the highest plateau on earth has added more pieces to the Tibetan puzzle. Dr. Martyn Unsworth has uncovered ...

Geoscientists have long puzzled over the mechanism that created the Tibetan Plateau, but a new study finds that the landform's history may be controlled primarily by the strength of the tectonic ...