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The Earth is shifting, Tibet shows signs of being torn in two
A new study suggests that something powerful enough to split the Tibetan plateau could lurk beneath the Himalayas.
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The village is harsh, the oxygen level is extremely low, but why does no one want to leave?
Located in Tibet, this is considered one of the villages with the harshest living conditions in the world.
Animal world
China deciphers DNA mystery that helps Tibetan antelope survive on plateau
Chinese scientists have successfully decoded the chromosome-level genome of the rare Tibetan antelope, with the aim of discovering the secret to their survival at high a…
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China successfully mines world's longest ice core outside the polar regions
On October 29, researchers from the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) announced that they had successfully extracted a 324-meter-long ice core from the thickest glacier…
Archeology
Ancient Handprints on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau: Unique Evidence of Human Evolution
Handprints and footprints discovered on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau date from 169,000 to 226,000 years ago.
Environment
China discovers thickest glacier on Qinghai-Tibet Plateau
The ice field, which has a maximum thickness of nearly 400m, is part of the Purog Kangri glacier in Tsoyi County, Southwest China's Tibet Autonomous Region, according to…
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Sacred lake in China: 800,000 tons of shrimp and fish but no one dares to catch it
For what reason do Tibetan people not take advantage of inherent resources even though they are not prohibited by the government or law?
Biology
A unique tree that looks like it was cast in bronze, typical of Tibet
This tree is grown as an ornamental plant in many parts of the world because of its striking copper-red bark, rare in woody plants.
Animal world
Finding the origin of the Tibetan Mastiff
In fact, the history of human domestication of dogs has not been fully studied, there are many unsolved mysteries, the views given are just hypotheses and it is too earl…
Biology
The 10,000-year-old Tibetan creature is about to resurrect, possibly causing a new pandemic?
Scientists have been shocked to discover that 900 species of microorganisms that have never been known in the world are being sealed in the permafrost in Tibet, includin…
Scientific works
China built the world's tallest planetarium
Construction of the planetarium at an altitude of 3,650 meters above sea level began on June 12 in the Tibet Autonomous Region.
Archeology
The kingdom of Tibet perished due to climate change
The researchers concluded that the collapse of the Kingdom of Gu Ge in the 17th century could have been caused by a drop in temperature.
1001 mystery
Tibetans can bring 'super powers' from another human species
Shocking research from the US shows that our Homo sapiens ancestors in Tibet had two periods of interbreeding with extinct humans called Denisovans, resulting in the pre…
Scientific works
The world's largest upland human gene bank
China has launched a bank to store more than 120,000 human genetic samples on the Tibetan plateau to support research on altitude sickness.
Biology
The melted 15,000-year-old glacier could release new viruses
A team of US and Chinese scientists studied two ice cores from a glacier in the Tibetan Plateau and discovered 28 completely new virus samples.