Tibet is one of the most linguistically diverse places in the world. This is in danger of extinction
Three days after he was released from prison in December, a Tibetan village leader named Gonpo Namgyal died. As his body was ...
Tibetan tree rings highlight link between climate change and fall of major Chinese dynasties
Study tracking climate patterns across thousands of years found that periods of lower rainfall coincided with some major ...
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Atlantic oceanic droughts do not threaten water resource security of Tibetan Plateau
A 2023 study conducted by a joint research team of scientists from China, the United States, and Switzerland, published in ...
Greek Reporter8d
Why Don’t Airlines Fly Over Tibet?
Discover why airlines avoid flying over Tibet. The top reasons are because of the high terrain, turbulence risks, and ...
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New light shed on diversity of plateau's plants
Working with researchers from the University of Basel in Switzerland, Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden of the Chinese ...
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Tibetan tree rings, China’s home-grown jumbo jets: SCMP daily highlights
Catch up on some of SCMP’s biggest China and economy stories of the ... have used tree rings to track rainfall patterns on the Tibetan Plateau over the course of almost 3,500 years and found ...
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Plateau water security claims challenged
Chinese scientists' recent commentary published in Nature challenged a previous study published in the scientific journal ...
The Washington Post21d
Gyalo Thondup, Dalai Lama’s brother and towering figure in Tibet, dies
China declared part of the Tibetan Plateau an autonomous region in 1965, but many exiles say mass migration of Han Chinese onto the Plateau has diluted Tibetan culture and use of the Tibetan ...
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China Counts Over 1,000 Snow Leopards in Largest Ever Survey
The survey highlights the significance of Qinghai province’s Sanjiangyuan region for snow leopard conservation and ...