Known as a true engineering marvel, the Qinghai-Tibet railway boasts the highest train line in the world, reaching an ...

Scientists from Ohio State University discovered the Guliya Glacier on the Tibetan Plateau in western China. They found over 1,700 previously unknown ancient viruses there. Permafrost hides many ...

The Tibetan Plateau hosts the world's largest permafrost region in the middle and low latitudes. Compared to the ...

The team's research area included the northern Tibetan plateau, pictured here. Much of the ground in this area is soil that remains frozen throughout the year, called permafrost. This visual may ...

However as the global temperature rises, Tibet’s glaciers are melting and grassland permafrost is thawing at an alarming rate. Featuring keynote speaker IPCC Chairman Rajendra Pachauri ...

Luyao Kang, Yutong Song, Rachel Mackelprang, Dianye Zhang, Shuqi Qin, Leiyi Chen, Linwei Wu, Yunfeng Peng and Yuanhe Yang*. Metagenomic insights into microbial community structure and metabolism in ...

Abstract: The permafrost development in the Qinghai-Tibet Engineering Corridor (QTEC) is affected by natural environment changes and human engineering activities. Human engineering activities may ...

qinghai-tibet railway, Photo by staticflickr.com ... once deemed the Forbidden City. railway permafrost, Photo by ...

The Tibetan Plateau has exhibited a discernible trend towards increased precipitation over the past 50 years. However, previous research predominantly focused on thermal stability of permafrost ...

Mysterious craters that first appeared in the Siberian permafrost a decade ago were caused by climate change-driven pressure changes that explosively released methane frozen underground ...

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