It’s not called the Third Pole for nothing. The Tibetan Plateau forms the major portion of a vast upland area of ice and glaciers that covers some 100,000 square kilometers of Earth’s surface. It is a ...

Ancient humans known as Denisovans hunted a wide range of animals on the Tibetan plateau, including blue sheep, yaks and snow leopards. This varied diet enabled them to thrive in the high-altitude ...

Thupten Dadak has spent the past three decades preserving and celebrating Tibetan culture in Minnesota. And a new exhibit at the Hennepin History Museum is latest of his efforts. Through artifacts and ...

With a history of more than 2,000 years, Tibetan carpet is a traditional handicraft on the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau. In 2006, the Jiaya Tibetan carpet weaving skills were inscribed in China's first ...

An industrial construction site on the upper Mekong, with a Tibetan village on the opposite bank, 2011. Credit: Scott Ezell In 2004, I traveled a thousand miles in the eastern Tibetan plateau by local ...

Tibetan Plateau, towering as the world's highest and largest plateau, wields huge influence on Asian and even global weather patterns and climate systems. Over downstream of Tibetan Plateau, the ...

Microorganisms are essential to grassland soil ecosystems and play a critical role in biogeochemical cycles. Microbial communities can be classified into distinct ecological groups based on common ...

In this study, the spatiotemporal changes and driving factors of evapotranspiration (ET) over the Tibetan Plateau (TP) are assessed from 1961 to 2014, based on a revised generalized nonlinear ...

Evolution is a work in progress and ever since the first cells began developing in the oceans, it hasn't stopped. A new study has now shed light on how evolution is taking shape in one of the most ...