Beall has been studying the human response to hypoxic living conditions for years. In new research, she and her team have ...

Tibet is situated on the Tibet Plateau, which includes parts of neighboring Chinese provinces Qinghai, Sichuan, Gansu and Yunnan. These areas used to be part of Tibet until Chinese rule.

A new study from Case Western Reserve University shows how ethnic Tibetan women have evolved to thrive during pregnancy at ...

Tibetan women on the high Tibetan Plateau have adapted to their oxygen-scarce environment over thousands of years, thriving ...

Soil water resources are crucial for hydrological processes and ecosystem functions on the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau. However, ...

On flight-tracking maps there's often a big area with few ... is there — and there's a perfectly logical reason why. The Tibetan Plateau comprises an area of approximately 965,000 square miles ...

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.

Graphics by Agnes Chang. Audio read by Hannah Beech and produced by Sarah Diamond.

The best time to visit Tibet is from June to August. Situated high on a plateau, Tibet experiences low temperatures and frost for the majority of the year. Summer is the only time where ...

"What we have done in essence is put a stethoscope on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau to constantly monitor its breathing," said Wang Xiaodan, a researcher at the institute. A crucial part of their ...

The rumen microbiota—a symbiont to its host and consists of critical functional substances—plays a vital role in the animal ...