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 cold, arid and unforgiving landscape ...

Denisovans survived and thrived on the high-altitude Tibetan plateau for more than 100,000 ... animal resources available in the grassland landscape. “We know that the Denisovans lived, occupied ...

A Western travel writer takes to the well-surveilled streets of Lhasa, and discovers another, almost alien cityscape atop the world's highest plateau ... other symbols of Tibetan Buddhism.

Brahma Chellaney urges the international community to hold China accountable for its destruction of the Tibetan Plateau.

Credit: Scott Ezell In 2004, I traveled a thousand miles in the eastern Tibetan plateau by local bus ... looming hundreds of feet above the landscape, like aliens from a robot world.

Researchers uncovered evidence that ancient humans survived on the Tibetan Plateau during the coldest period of the past 2.5 million years, demonstrating their resilience and adaptability.

The people of the Tibetan Plateau, an area also known as the Xizang Autonomous Region by the Chinese government and under the ...

It is fall on the Tibetan Plateau, where vast windswept grasslands ... between the minimal and the majestic, reflecting the landscape and the way people live here,” Dechen says.

Scientists have warned that there is a rising risk of extreme weather events as a result of the Tibetan Plateau becoming warmer and wetter. The plateau is sometimes described as the “Asian water ...