Shallow earthquakes are generally more dangerous than deep earthquakes. This is because the seismic waves from shallow ...

What makes Qinghai unique: Its charm lies in plateau landscapes, Tibetan culture, and scenic routes rather than urban centers ...

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 ...

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) ...

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 ...

The U.N. process shows little appetite for addressing the urgent climate crisis on the Tibetan Plateau – in part due to China’s apathy. On November 12, at the 29th Conference of the Parties (COP29) to ...

Long-standing debates exist over the timing and mechanism of uplift of the Tibetan Plateau and, more specifically, over the connection between lithospheric evolution and surface expressions of plateau ...

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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 ...