Traveling along the Tea Horse Road unlocks a land of teahouses, centuries-old monasteries, and epic valley views.

See the full-size Yunna, China Close-up Map. China’s Karst Landscape: A great swath of karst covers much of Yunnan Province’s eastern half. Here in the the East Mountain Plateau – located between Shi ...

Promoted as “andesine” and purportedly from mines in Congo or Tibet, this material was subsequently found ... a spectacular fault scarp some 760 meters (2,490 feet) high, located 10–15 miles southwest ...

An earthquake of 4.0 magnitude on Richter Scale jolted Tibet on Sunday, a statement by the National Center of Seismology said ...

Researchers have used tree rings to track rainfall patterns on the Tibetan Plateau over the course of almost 3,500 years and found a link between major changes and the downfall of some of the most ...

In June 2024, southern China experienced record-breaking heavy rainfall, resulting in devastating societal and economic ...

Catch up on some of SCMP’s biggest China and economy stories of the day. If you would like to see more of our reporting, please consider subscribing. 1. Tibetan tree rings link climate change ...

Tibet was hit by a second earthquake of magnitude 4.3 on the Richter Scale on Sunday, a statement by the National Center for ...

The findings identified that warm and cold spring in the Tibetan Plateau leads to wet or dry summers in Southern China respectively. Listen to Story Warm and cold spring in the Tibetan Plateau leads ...

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.