The Tibetan Plateau, often called the "roof of the world," continues to baffle geologists and others curious about Earth’s ...

Chinese officials discovered over 20 million tons of copper resources in the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau. With its huge copper find, Tibet emerges as a paramount player within worldwide copper trade ...

An international research team has revealed the snow leopard's unique evolutionary path by studying rare snow leopard fossils ...

Archaeologists have discovered 4,800-year-old relics in the earliest known lakeside settlement in Tibet, officially the Xizang Autonomous Region of China, dating back thousands of years. The site, ...

Tibetan Government-in-Exile President Sikyong Penpa Tsering spoke at the Tezu Dhargyeling Tibetan Settlement on January 27, underlining the strategic and geopolitical importance of the Tibetan Plateau ...

The Ophiocordyceps sinensis – colloquially called caterpillar fungus or “Himalayan gold” – it can fetch astronomical prices ...

The Yellow River, which stretches from the Tibetan Plateau to the Bohai Sea in China, is so called because of the color lent ...

From a brain-inspired vision chip to an ice core time machine, these were the most important breakthroughs last year, ...

The top highest roads in the world, offering rugged terrain, high-altitude passes, and access to remote cultural and natural ...

Earlier this month, a massive earthquake struck Tibet and severely damaged numerous monasteries and nunneries. Recent media articles since then have highlighted other ongoing threats to Tibetan ...