The Tibetan Plateau is the largest and highest plateau in the world. Lying between the Himalayan mountain range and the Taklamakan Desert, this vast elevated carpet of land comprises one of the ...

China's Premier Li Qiang announced construction had begun on what will be the world's largest hydropower dam, on the eastern ...

Located in Southwest China's Xizang autonomous region, Namtso Lake is regarded by Tibetans as the "heavenly lake". Standing ...

WINDSWEPT PLATEAU Today the central Tibetan Plateau, at an average of 4,500 meters above sea level, is known as the roof of the world.New fossil and geochemical studies suggest the uplift of the ...

The past four World Cups have spanned 12 years, visited four continents and cost their hosts somewhere in the ballpark of $250billion.. Despite all that, there’s one big problem: every World Cup ...

Ten of Asia’s major rivers flow from the Tibetan Plateau and fill river basins that provide water to more than 1.35 billion people, a fifth of the world’s population.Demand for this water ...

Among the many different kinds of dinosaur hotspots, Thailand’s first dinosaur fossil—a sauropod femur—was discovered in 1976 ...

The authorities have not said how many people will be displaced and how it will affect the ecosystem. Read more at ...

HONG KONG: China’s Premier Li Qiang announced construction had begun on what will be the world’s largest hydropower dam, on the eastern rim of the Tibetan Plateau, at an estimated cost of at least ...