Ever noticed how commercial airlines avoid flying over Tibet? While there’s no official ban, flight paths over this vast, ...

Qin Shi Huang famously sent alchemists east to Japan seeking immortality. Now, a newly discovered inscription suggests he ...

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The life-sustaining Brahmaputra runs from China's Tibet as the Yarlung Tsangpo. Can China block or divert the flow of Tsangpo ...

An updating map created by CBS News' data team charts ... The Sunset Fire broke out the evening of Jan. 8 in the Runyon Canyon area of the Hollywood Hills, forcing a new set of evacuations.

The general distribution of precipitation in this area is more in the southeast ... where occasionally Tertiary red beds are exposed. MAP is 500–800 mm. The southeastern Tibetan Plateau south of the ...

Most routes are from the Nepal side, so it is unlikely that the measure will succeed. But it does highlight the cultural ...

Finnish soldiers on skis beat Russian forces during the 1939-1940 Winter War by moving quietly through forests where tanks ...

Local eye care staff explained that women in this Tibetan area spend more time on the farm and caring for the family which limits their opportunities to travel to health facilities. This may explain ...

Flooding in southwestern China has destroyed dozens of roads and homes. Yunnan province’s mountainous Nujiang Lisu Autonomous Prefecture had 27 houses damaged and 16 bridges damaged or destroyed ...

Tibet experienced a 3.5 magnitude earthquake on Saturday, following a 3.6 magnitude quake earlier in the week, both at a shallow depth of 10km. Shallow earthquakes pose greater risks due to ...

Mr Jones started the climb, which he described as a “personal battle”, from the Tibet area, encountering a storm around the 8,300m mark. The mountaineer warned that climbing risks losing “the element ...