With nearly 37,000 glaciers on the Chinese side alone, the Tibetan Plateau and its surrounding arc of mountains contain the largest volume of ice outside the polar regions. This ice gives birth to ...

The team's findings, detailed in the paper titled "Source of lead in a Tibetan glacier since the Stone Age," were recently published in Communications Earth & Environment. The Tibetan Plateau, a ...

Most of Asia's major rivers find their source on the Tibetan plateau. However as the global temperature rises, Tibet’s glaciers are melting and grassland permafrost is thawing at an alarming rate.

The Tibetan Plateau (TP) has the third-largest number of glaciers after the Antarctic and Greenland. Bacteria, deposited on glacier surfaces through dry and wet deposition, undergo in-situ growth ...

The China Meteorological Administration has previously warned that the total glacier area on the plateau ... the earliest human activity on the Tibetan Plateau may date back over 190,000 years ...

Using the Open Global Glacier Model (OGGM), the researchers simulated the impact of accelerated warming on the Tibetan Plateau glaciers. The results suggest that the warming is projected to reduce ...

signalling more effective monitoring for high-altitude glaciers and snow changes. The Tibetan Plateau is Asia’s most important source of water, and this groundbreaking work has uncovered ...

The U.N. process shows little appetite for addressing the urgent climate crisis on the Tibetan Plateau – in part due to China’s apathy. Himalayan glaciers disappeared 65 percent faster since ...

It is unclear whether the community structure and community assembly mechanisms of these water bodies are consistent with those of lakes in the Tibetan Plateau that were indirectly influenced by ...

Asia Society has produced a documentary about the impact of global warming on the Tibetan plateau, the rivers which ... Lester Brown writes that shrinking glaciers in China and India could affect ...