The ‘third pole’ is the planet’s largest reservoir of ice and snow after the Arctic and Antarctic. It encompasses the Himalaya–Hindu Kush mountain ranges and the Tibetan Plateau. The region hosts the world’s 14 highest…
By Nick Hawkins The face of a mountainside near Bolo Township, by Chambo City inJomda County, Eastern Tibet collapsed into the Drichu River (the Yangste in Chinese)on October 11, blocking the river and forming a…
Oct28, 2018) – The average temperature in the northeastern part of the Tibetan Plateau has been rising at a rate well over three times the average speed of global warming since 1961, reported China’s official Xinhua news…
Oct 18: As many as 6,000 people from Menling County in the Traditional Tibetan Province of U-Tsang had been evacuated after a landslide had blocked the Yarlung Tsangpo, China’s emergency services announced earlier that day
As the Chinese government released a new white paper claiming it supports “ecological conservation” in Tibet, state media announced that China has stepped up production of bottled water from Tibet’s endangered glaciers, and news emerged…
In recent years, China’s exploitation of Tibet’s natural resources has gathered pace significantly. Tibetans have no power to protect their own land and must watch the economic benefits of its resources flow out of their…
By tew SOURCE :New Delhi, Hindustan Times 146 glaciers in Chandra basin lost one-fifth of the estimated volume of water since 1984.Overall spread of the glaciers might not fall but water content is likely to…
Reanalyzed foot and handprints may date to thousands of years before many thought the roof of the world was settled. (Inside Science) — Surrounded by mountain ranges holding the highest peaks on Earth, the Tibetan…
By Katherine Kornei Of the roughly 198,000 glaciers on the planet, more than a quarter are found in the Himalayas. But even this frigid expanse of ice and snow—home to nine of the world’s 10…
When we think of the impact of climate change on the world’s ice, we usually think first of the North and South Poles.