The India-Asia continental collision and the uplift of the Tibetan Plateau have long been attributed to continuous Cenozoic convergence with two generic assumptions: the ongoing India-Asia collision ...

The plateau's uplift also profoundly influenced the Asian monsoon system, with these changes offering vital clues to East Asia's climate history, researchers said.

Ten years ago, fishermen in Taiwan dredged a jawbone from the seafloor. Now, scientists say it belonged to a Denisovan man.

Researchers in China have uncovered 55,000-year-old advanced tools, suggesting an unknown human species matched Neanderthal ...

Chinese researchers have revealed that the Tibetan Plateau is expected to experience accelerated warming in the next 10 years ...

The plateau is sometimes described as the “Asian water tower” because it is the source of many of the continent’s major rivers, including the Indus, Ganges, Mekong, Yangtze and Yellow rivers.

A multidisciplinary study led by researchers from the Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research of the Chinese Academy of ...

"To better understand the water resource security of the Asian Water Tower, it's necessary to expand the coverage of the water vapor observation network across the plateau and conduct detailed ...

Most of Asia's major rivers find their source on the Tibetan plateau. However as the global temperature rises, Tibet’s glaciers are melting and grassland permafrost is thawing at an alarming rate.