The snow leopard (Panthera Uncia) is an iconic species for many living in the Himalayan region. In much the same way as its close relative the tiger (Panthera Tigris) is for many in India. What…
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.
Researchers have found the earliest known fossil of a primitive woolly rhino in the Himalayas, in addition to many
By Jane Qiu Scientists thought people first set foot on the frozen Tibetan Plateau 15,000 years ago.
Climate change researchers working across the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau say rapid warming has
By Rebecca MorelleScience Correspondent, BBC News Scientists have used satellite images to study how the water on the Earth’s surface has changed over 30 years.
Introduction For more than two thousand years, Tibet with its three administrative regions, Dotoe, Domed and U-Tsang existed as a sovereign nation. The communist Chinese invaded and occupied the country in 1949/1950 and today China refers…
Researchers looked at 3,500-year-long tree ring records from North East Tibet to estimate annual precipitation. They found that recent decades have likely been the wettest on record in this semi-arid region.
With China bordering to the east, Burma to the south-east, India, Bhutan and Nepal to the south, Pakistan to the west and Turkistan to the north-west. This mineral-rich nation with a history of thousands of…