China unveiled plans for what could become the world’s largest hydropower project, the Medog Dam, on the lower Yarlung Zangbo River, known as the Brahmaputra in India. This announcement was far from ...

The Nepali government has significantly increased climbing permit fees for Mount Everest or Mount Qomolangma, an official ...

This study addresses a novel and interesting question about how the rise of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau influenced patterns of bird migration, employing a multi-faceted approach that combines species ...

Are you preparing for UPSC CSE Prelims 2025? Check your progress and revise your topics through this quiz on Environment and ...

The study of Earth's various habitats and landscapes, as well as the people who influence and interact with them, is known as ...

Stunning discoveries and fresh breakthroughs in DNA analysis are changing our understanding of our own evolution and offering a new picture of the "other humans" that our ancestors met across Europe ...

Vladimir Putin expressed his condolences to President of the People's Republic of China Xi Jinping over the earthquake that struck China's Tibet Autonomous Region. “Please, accept most sincere ...

Several places in Bihar were jolted by a 7.1 magnitude earthquake that struck near the Tibet-Nepal border on Tuesday morning, an official said. The quake with its epicentre 93 km northeast of Lobuche, ...

China's Qinghai-Tibet Plateau has made a breakthrough in mineral exploration. Since the beginning of the 14th Five-Year Plan (2021-25), more than 20 million tons of new copper resources have been ...

The height of the Tibetan Plateau makes it dangerous for the airplanes to fly over it. The mountain's disruption of airflow produces eddies, which can be extremely turbulent if you're flying through ...

India's foreign ministry voiced concerns on Friday about China's planned hydropower dam on the Yarlung Zangbo river, a project potentially affecting India and Bangladesh. The river transforms into the ...

China has approved the construction of a hydropower dam in Tibet that is set to be the largest of its kind in the world once complete. The 300 billion kWh dam will run along 31 miles of the ...