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
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.
China is developing the world's largest rain-generating system with an area of 1.6 million km2, three times the size of Spain, South China Morning Post March 27 reported.
China began to build the world's tallest gravitational wave detector telescope in Tibet, 5,000 meters above sea level
According to the Daily Mail, studying cracks in the Tibetan plateau could help scientists accurately predict future earthquakes.
A series of glaciers on the Tibetan Plateau are melting and that situation could have a negative impact on Vietnam and many other Asian countries.