At 6:01 am on May 23rd, Jimu-1 Tethered Balloon soared above 7003 meters alongside Namtso Lake, one of the highest lakes in Tibet. Behind this record-breaking flight is an expedition team of over 50 researchers from the Chinese Academy of Sciences including the Institute of the Tibetan Plateau Res...

During the Arctic Circle China Forum held in Shanghai, May 10-11, 2019, policy-makers and scientists agreed, among other things, that the Three Poles, namely the Arctic, the Third Pole and the Antarctica are all together a fundamental part of the earth system which has and will continue to change ...

Third Pole region bears many similarities with the Arctic and Antarctic in their sensitivity and amplified responses to global climate changes, therefore global attention needs to be raised and cooperation be promoted to jointly combat climate change in those fragile ecosystems. Pan-TPE program PI...

On Jan.3, 2019, Nature published a comment entitled “Collapsing Glaciers Threaten Asia’s Water Supplies”, which underlined the significance of a weather and isotope-monitoring network as water cycle processes accelerate across the Third Pole. The paper called for more research on Third Pole wat...

On Dec. 19, CAS released its 40 landmark achievements since the beginning of the Reform and Opening Up. Among them, 15 pushed the frontiers of science, 15 served major national demands and 10 improved people’s livelihood. Tibetan Plateau Scientific Expedition and Research is listed as one of the ...