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

China is weaponizing infrastructure—dams, roads, railways, and digital—to reshape the Tibetan Plateau and coerce neighbors like India and Nepal. This report analyzes how China’s infrastructure ...

At an ancient site in southern China, a 7,100-year-old body sheds light on the origins of people in the Tibetan Plateau. Qiaomei Fu Chinese Academy of Sciences For tens of thousands of years, the ...

Everest may be the granddaddy, but Nepal is home to many other mountains that could easily be considered wonders of the world. The country boasts eight of the ten highest mountains on the planet, and ...

From their B Corp-certified atelier in a remote Tibetan village, Norlha’s yak wool textiles—beloved by the likes of Hermès—are used to create ethical luxury fashion and homewares.

Denisovans survived and thrived on the high-altitude Tibetan plateau for more than 100,000 years, according to a new study that deepens scientific understanding of the enigmatic ancient humans ...

High-altitude cave used by Tibetan Buddhists yields a Denisovan fossil Cave deposits yield bones of sheep, yaks, carnivores, and birds that were butchered.

Bone remains found in a Tibetan cave 3,280 m above sea level indicate an ancient group of humans survived here for many millennia.

Ancient humans known as Denisovans hunted a wide range of animals on the Tibetan plateau, including blue sheep, yaks and snow leopards. This varied diet enabled them to thrive in the high-altitude ...

The Tibetan plateau—the world’s highest and largest plateau—poses a challenge to the people who live there because of its extreme climate. In a new study, researchers have ...

Tibetan Buddhism has long been led by the Dalai Lama, the 88-year-old spiritual leader who fled Tibet in 1959 and has been living in exile in India ever since. Beijing considers the Dalai Lama a ...