The Tibetan Plateau, often referred to as the “roof of the world,” is witnessing a surprising transformation. Many lakes across the globe are shrinking due to climate change and human intervention, ...

While orbiting over the northern Tibetan Plateau, an astronaut aboard the International Space Station captured this photograph of Siling Lake. The lake, also called Selincuo, is one of the largest ...

KATHMANDU (Reuters) -The deadly flood in Nepal's Bhote Koshi River that killed at least nine people and left more than two dozen missing this week was triggered by the draining of a supraglacial lake ...

Xiahe County, located in Gannan Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture in the northeastern part of the Tibetan Plateau, is known as ‘Wei Zang Ni Wa’, also known as "Little Tibet". For a long time, all aspects ...

Scientists from Southern University of Science and Technology (SUSTech) and Technical University of Denmark (DTU Space) innovatively employ geodetic altimetry to monitor lake changes on the Tibetan ...

Gesang Cering habitually wakes up at midnight to check whether his house or sheepfold is flooded again, as he has often seen water oozing, or sometimes even spouting out from ground since year 2000, ...

Photo: A lake in the Tibetan Plateau As Seen From Orbit By Keith Cowing May 24, 2013 Filed under OnOrbit, Return to Everest 2009 ...