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

The team finds that the orographic gravity waves triggered by small-scale orography over the Tibetan Plateau contribute importantly to the spring rainfall in East Asia. The impact is even ...

Of the 680 glaciers Chinese scientists monitor closely on the Tibetan Plateau, 95 percent are shedding more ice than they're adding, with the heaviest losses on its southern and eastern edges.

In June 2024, southern China experienced record-breaking heavy rainfall, resulting in devastating societal and economic ...

BEIJING--China has approved the construction of what will be the world’s largest hydropower dam, kicking off an ambitious project on the eastern rim of the Tibetan plateau that could affect ...

The CCP’s religious and cultural repression on the Tibetan Plateau is also feeding an ecological crisis. The response from ...

The Chinese authorities, as part of their suppression of Tibetans’ basic rights, have taken aim at privately run educational ...

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.

When the climate became arid after 14 CE, famine and instances of cannibalism increased. Read more at straitstimes.com.

The mountains form a natural barrier between the densely populated southern and eastern provinces of China and the great wilderness of the Tibetan Plateau, the highest and largest in the world.