A surprising new discovery suggests that the Indian Plate is splitting into two, with a portion of it sinking into the mantle ...

The lower jawbone, from an individual named Penghu 1, is the first piece of fossil evidence that Denisovans were as ...

Indian imposed sanctions began after Nepal adopted its new constitution on 20 September 2015 & officially ended in February 2016 (after 6 months) but the humanitarian crisis continued as Nepali people ...

Deep beneath the mountains of the Himalayas, something remarkable is taking place. The vast, rocky plate supporting India, ...

And few tragedies better illustrate the commonalities among authoritarian regimes than their respective responses to the massive earthquakes this year in Tibet and Myanmar. In January of this year, ...

The people of Myanmar have often turned to the clergy for aid during natural disasters. But last month’s earthquake was also ...

China recently approved the construction of the world's largest hydropower dam, across the Yarlung Tsangpo river in Tibet. When fully up and running, it will be the world's largest power plant—by some ...

In digesting Tibet's different regions, it's important to know a few things. First, there's a distinction between Tibet and the Tibet Autonomous Region (also referred to as the TAR). Tibet is ...