A new study has found that for the past 10,000 years, populations on the Tibetan Plateau have developed particular adaptations to survive in the low-oxygen conditions surrounding the region.

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 ...

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 ...

The interannual relationship between the spring sea surface temperature over the western tropical Indian Ocean (WTIO SST) and summer water vapor content over Tibetan Plateau (TPWVC) enhances ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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.

aDepartment of Obstetrics and Gynecology, National Clinical Research Center for Obstetric and Gynaecological Diseases, State Key Laboratory of Common Mechanism Research for Major Diseases, Peking ...