Researchers have used tree rings to track rainfall patterns on the Tibetan Plateau over the course of almost 3,500 years and found a link between major changes and the downfall of some of the most ...

Catch up on some of SCMP’s biggest China and economy stories of the day. If you would like to see more of our reporting, please consider subscribing. 1. Tibetan tree rings link climate change ...

The findings identified that warm and cold spring in the Tibetan Plateau leads to wet or dry summers in Southern China respectively. Listen to Story Warm and cold spring in the Tibetan Plateau leads ...

China’s latest colossal infrastructure project, if completed, will be the world’s largest hydropower dam, high up in the Tibetan plateau on the border with India. China says the Motuo ...

Most of Asia's major rivers find their source on the Tibetan plateau. However as the global temperature rises, Tibet’s glaciers are melting and grassland permafrost is thawing at an alarming rate.

And yet, in high altitudes on the Tibetan Plateau, where oxygen levels in the air people breathe are notably lower than lower altitudes, human communities thrive. In the more than 10,000 years the ...

Additionally, documentary films will be screened at some venues to provide a deeper understanding of the Tibetan cause and its significance. Also read | Book, map with original names of Tibetan ...

A new way to study 3D maps of galaxies in the cosmos without compressing the data is revealing new information about the dark universe. Hidden information in maps of galaxies spread across the ...

Here, we assess the dissimilarity between modern taxa assemblages from lake surface-sediments and fossil taxa assemblages from four lake sediment cores from the south-eastern Tibetan Plateau and ...

Archaeologists believe they may have found the world’s oldest 3D map dating back around 13,000 years, as revealed in a new study. Located in a rock shelter called Ségognole 3, south of Paris ...