They also measured the plateau's electric and magnetic fields. It took a long time to discover the fluid because Tibet was closed to foreigners until the 1980s.

Chinese researchers have revealed that the central Qinghai-Tibet Plateau was a globally significant hub for floristic exchange tens of millions of years ago. This was reported by The Xinhua News ...

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 kilometers of Earth's surface.

The map shows that the total area of permafrost on the plateau, excluding glaciers and lakes, is approximately 1.15 million square kilometers.

A Western travel writer takes to the well-surveilled streets of Lhasa, and discovers another, almost alien cityscape atop the world's highest plateau I step out of my hotel in the old city of ...

Thirdly, alpine vegetation is a unique vegetation type in the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau and is very sensitive to climate change, covering an area of approximately 0.3 million km 2.

Examine a flight path map and you’ll notice an eerie absence: a hollow expanse where planes dare not venture. This is the Tibetan Plateau, a geographical black hole for aviation. High altitude ...

In 2004, I traveled a thousand miles in the eastern Tibetan plateau by local bus, hitchhiking, and finally on a second-hand motorcycle, which I rode over 17,000-foot passes so remote I felt like ...

LANZHOU－Chinese researchers recently released a new map to improve engineering projects and ecosystem management on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, known as "the roof of the world".