The Tibetan plateau and the Indian monsoon

Renowned biologist George Schaller (pictured in main photo) has been traveling to the Tibetan Plateau for nearly three decades, studying its unique wildlife. But with climate change and overgrazing taking a toll on the landscape, he reports, ...

RELATED The shallow earthquake struck Sichuan province on the edge of the Tibetan Plateau just after 8:00 am, prompting a major rescue operation in the same area where 87,000 people were reported dead or missing in a massive quake in 2008. Eighteen ...

Chinese artillery began pounding five Indian posts perched to the east of India's northern-most military base, Daulat Beg Oldi. Faced with impossible odds, the men held out for three days—and then, fought their way back along the track towards the ...

The Dalai Lama: The movement that he leads is experiencing massive stresses, and his peregrinations in Europe are just as important to him as they are for us. Northern Ireland is a long way from Tibet. But watching the Dalai Lama cross Derry's Peace ...

Travelers often wonder ? For many years, Tibet was a far off and inaccessible travel destination. Thanks to a rapidly evolving tourists infrastructure this is not longer true! In the last decade Tibet has become an easily accessible travel ...

By Nathan Williams A few kilometres from the Burmese border in northern Thailand, Anchalee Katipatoom is attempting to close a sale. Not made in a factory. Made by the hill tribe. At her roadside stall, backed by an avocado grove and with views ...

Kashmir (; }}; ; ) is the northwestern region of the Indian subcontinent. Until the mid-19th century, the term Kashmir geographically denoted only the valley between the Great Himalayas and the Pir Panjal mountain range. Today Kashmir denotes a ...

10:00, Other Sciences/Archaeology & Fossils Fig.1 Map showing important fossil localities and geographic locations. Vertebrate fossil sites are frequently adjacent to exposures of Tethyan basement rock (colored in brown). Credit: Xiaoming Wang The ...

GANSU Province, containing a key segment of the Silk Road, is an arid land of mystery, with temples, ruins, and the farthest western outpost of the Great Wall. Apart from the famous Buddhist Mogao Grottoes in Dunhuang, Gansu is little explored and ...