The Tibetan Plateau supports a vast expanse of rolling meadows and grassy steppes that are nearly 3 miles (4,500 meters or 14,700 feet), on average, above sea level. Well above the tree line, these ...

In Ge'gyai county, Ngari prefecture of the Xizang autonomous region, a man-made grassland project is reshaping the rural economy. Villagers, aided by state funding, have developed more than 200 ...

In a remote corner of the Tibetan Plateau, a bold agricultural experiment is turning barren desert into productive pasture — ...

The Tibetan Plateau has experienced more rapid climate warming than the global average, coupled with greater interannual variation in precipitation over the past 50 years. How will such dramatic ...

The Tibetan plateau covers 850,000 square miles, accounting for one-quarter of China’s total land area. Like America’s Great Plains, Tibet’s grasslands have supported and benefited from the ...

The grasslands of the Tibetan Plateau serve a special function in protecting the ecological function of this region at the headwaters of the Yangtze River and the Yellow River. However, natural ...

Rising temperatures threaten stability of Tibetan alpine grasslands. Georgia Institute of Technology. Journal Nature Communications Funder U.S. National Science Foundation, National Nature Science ...

This article is part of a series that explores life along the Hu Line, an imaginary diagonal line across China that has vast demographic, environmental, and political significance.. SICHUAN, Southwest ...

LANZHOU, China -- Last year, local Communist Party officials relocated a 64-year-old Tibetan cattle and sheepherder named Lhabu to a newly created town called "Nomads' New Village," about seven ...

Chinese researchers have successfully delivered a cloned yak via caesarean section (C-section). Born on July 11, the baby yak ...

Scientists from the Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research, ... with grassland in both regions exhibiting higher latent heating and lower sensible heating compared to alpine desert and urban ...

The human-bear conflict on the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau gets no public attention. But academics have long been examining why these clashes are becoming more frequent, and what can be done to resolve ...