China's insistence that it will identify the next Dalai Lama foreshadows the chance that followers will have to decide who ...

Among other goals, China aims to build its own Yellowstone on the Tibetan plateau. Zhu serves on an advisory committee providing input on the development of China’s nascent national park system ...

LITANG, China — High on the Tibetan Plateau, an eerie quiet has settled on the usually bustling city of Litang. Few shops open their doors. Only police vehicles and packs of dogs roam the streets.

China began constructing a $167.8 billion dam on the Brahmaputra River in Tibet, close to the Indian border in Arunachal Pradesh.

In the lead up to his 90th birthday, Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama made a series of statements concerning the future of ...

When asked about the possible downstream impact of the dam on Assam, he said it is not yet known whether it will be good or bad.

For tens of thousands of years, the people and cultures of southeast Asia have intertwined, moved around and diversified through time.

"The Tibetan Plateau was previously thought to be uninhabitable during the last glacial maximum," said Li. Evidence found in ...

This article was originally published on The Conversation.. It's not called the Third Pole for nothing. The Tibetan Plateau forms the major portion of a vast upland area of ice and glaciers that ...

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 ...

XINING, China (AP) — There's a building boom on the Tibetan plateau, one of the world's last remote places. Mountains long crowned by garlands of fluttering prayer flags — a ...