While many lakes worldwide are shrinking, the northern Tibetan Plateau is experiencing a dramatic expansion. Satellite images spanning decades reveal that lakes are growing rapidly, fueled by ...

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, ...

From the Tibetan plateau to the African Sahel ... Gufu Oba: If you think of a chessboard, the landscape is really the main ingredient or central land-use unit. Pastoralists have so much detailed ...

Bones dating back 25,000 years suggest that humans lived in extremely icy conditions in Tibet, which were previously thought ...

On the southeastern edge of the Tibetan Plateau, at the convergence of the Hengduan Mountains and the Himalayas, abundant moisture creates a unique climate and ecological environment. [Zhao ...

Using primarily ethnographic methods, I have conducted research on property rights, natural resource conflicts, environmental history, development and landscape transformation ... to climate change on ...

Qinghai Hoh Xil, located in the northeastern extremity of the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau, is the largest and highest plateau in the world. This extensive area of alpine mountains and steppe systems is ...