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 ...

A groundbreaking study has unveiled how massive, high-altitude wind currents — known as the westerlies — deliver essential ...

Scientists have discovered how a major wind system, known as the mid-latitude westerlies, delivers moisture to the Asian Water Towers, the high mountain regions that supply fresh water to nearly two ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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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 kilometres of Earth’s surface. It is a ...