“If the assumed land elevation is too high ... level rise falls disproportionately on tropical regions, especially in Asia”. The study estimates that 157 million people in tropical Asia ...

they repopulated Asia. This trajectory and habitation pattern change completely if the timing of any of these events, from isolation to creation of the land bridge, gets altered. The elevation of ...

Afar is a hotspot with hot rock masses rising from deep within the mantle. It created volcanism and lifted the landscape in northeastern Africa. Hot rock masses then flowed further north beneath the ...

The glaciers in Asia's Tian Shan mountains have lost more ... and NASA's Ice, Cloud and Land Elevation Satellite (ICESat), which launched in 2003. They also developed computer models of these ...

The authors of a paper published Tuesday developed a more accurate way of calculating land elevation based on satellite readings, a standard way of estimating the effects of sea level rise over ...

As Joe Studwell points out in “How Asia Works”, farm yields often stagnate in such places. As populations grow, making land scarce, landlords jack up rents and lend at extortionate rates.

The first-ever use of cutting-edge drone-based lidar in Central Asia allowed archaeologists ... and layout of two recently discovered high-elevation sites in Uzbekistan. The medieval cities ...