Before the day breaks on a winter morning at the Pong Lake wetland in northern India, muffled honks of geese are heard in the distance.

While commercial planes are not specifically banned from flying over the Himalayas, there's an unsettling reason why they generally avoid doing it.

China’s discovery of 20M+ tons of copper in Tibet could reshape green energy and boost its economy. Learn about the environmental and geopolitical challenges.

The Tibetan Plateau, also known as the "Roof of the World," stands at an average elevation of about 14,800 feet. This vast and rugged region, that stretches approximately to 2.5 million square ...

More than 3,600 houses were damaged, it said. Its epicenter, located in Tingri county high on the Tibetan plateau, was close to the border with Nepal, around 50 miles north of the world’s highest ...

China has tried to reassure India over its plans for a mega dam in the Tibetan Plateau, which has prompted fears it will ...

The epicentre was located in Tingri, a rural county near the boundary where the Indian tectonic plate collides with the Eurasian plate, creating long fault-lines across the Tibetan plateau.

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The Tibetan Plateau is surrounded by some of the world's highest mountain ranges, including the Himalayas to the south and the Kunlun Mountains to the north. The plateau's climate is equally harsh ...