A new study has found that for the past 10,000 years, populations on the Tibetan Plateau have developed ... encounter altitude sickness due to the problem of low availability of oxygen levels.

Introduction: Knowledge of precipitation over the Tibetan Plateau, often referred to as the “Asian water tower”, is crucial for water resource management, infrastructure planning, and disaster ...

People on the Tibetan Plateau have developed unique physiological traits over 10,000 years to thrive in low-oxygen conditions, preventing hypoxia. A study showed that intermediate hemoglobin ...

In new research, scientists examined five outside-Tibet records of the snow leopard lineage. Their results suggest that the snow leopard dispersed out of the Tibetan Plateau multiple times during the ...

And yet, in high altitudes on the Tibetan Plateau, where oxygen levels in the air people breathe are notably lower than lower altitudes, human communities thrive. In the more than 10,000 years the ...

Constrained by disparities in regional development, scarce infrastructure, and insufficient highly qualified medical providers, the human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine and effective screening are not ...

You will be redirected to our submission process. Known as the “roof of the world,” the Tibetan Plateau is the highest and largest plateau on Earth. Tibetan Plateau hosts several mountain ecosystems ...

Mountains can leave us in awe, but they rarely offer easy clues about what lies beneath them. The Tibetan Plateau, often called the “roof of the world,” continues to baffle geologists and others ...

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.

Yala glacier in Nepal is predicted to vanish by the 2040s, due to significant reductions in area and volume. Monitoring since 1974 shows a retreat of 680m and a 36% area reduction. This glacier is ...