The ancient Chinese legend that Tang dynasty rulers donned gold-plated armor in battle had long been mere myth—until now.
A local shepherd from Gonghe County in Northwest China’s Qinghai Province, steers his herd not toward a typical grassy field, ...
Scientists using Copernicus Sentinel-1 satellite data have revealed that the Tibetan Plateau is slowly flowing, not acting as rigid blocks as once believed. The study shows eastern Tibet moving up to ...
Solar power is quietly reshaping parts of the Tibetan Plateau, where thin air, intense sunlight, and dry winds have long ...
That changed this month, when researchers in China unveiled a restored suit of gilded bronze armor from a royal tomb on the ...
The vast Tibetan Plateau–the world’s highest and largest plateau, bordered by the world’s highest mountains–has long challenged geologists trying to understand how and when the region rose to such ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...