Biodiversity is critical to humanity's sustainable future, but global species extinction is accelerating due to environmental changes and human activities. The Yarlung Tsangpo River, which originates ...

Why it's incredible: The gorge is longer and three times deeper than the Grand Canyon in Arizona. The Yarlung Tsangpo Grand Canyon is the world's largest terrestrial canyon — longer than even the ...

China has tried to reassure India over its plans for a mega dam in the Tibetan Plateau, which has prompted fears it will cause water shortages and damage the environment, by saying it will not try to ...

If China’s damming of the Brahmaputra is allowed to go unchecked, it will soon be able to bend much of Asia to its will through control of water resources, warns Chandu Doddi.

Arunachal Pradesh Chief Minister Pema Khandu has issued a strong warning over China’s massive hydropower project being built just across the Indian border on the Yarlung Tsangpo river, known as the ...

New York, July 30, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- According to International Relations Study Association(IRSA), on July 19, 2025, in Motuo County, a remote border town in Nyingchi, Tibet Autonomous Region ...

The Tsangpo Gorge in Tibet, one of the deepest canyons in the world, formed when tectonic forces pushed up the earth and steepened the path of a river that then caused massive erosion, a new study ...

The Himalayan mountains are dissected by some of the deepest and most impressive gorges on Earth. Constraining the interplay between river incision and rock uplift is important for understanding ...

The first steps towards China’s plans for a mega dam in the Himalayas were taken more than seven decades ago. In 1951, the Chinese government established the first scientific expedition to the Qinghai ...

China doesn't plan to supply its thirsty north with water from world's highest river, which originates in Tibet, China's former water chief said Monday. "The Chinese government has no plan to divert ...

The region around Medog, the site of a new mega-dam, is one of the last strongholds of Tibetan cultural and ecological integrity. While the proposed hydropower project on the Yarlung Tsangpo River has ...