In 2010 the U.N. agreed to a resolution declaring the human right to "safe and clean drinking water and sanitation." The safety of drinking water is a vital issue for many communities around the world. Chair Professor Yan Zheng, School of Environmental Science and Engineering from Southe...

The Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) represents the largest infrastructure and development project in human history, and presents risks and opportunities for ecosystems, economies, and communities. Some risks (habitat fragmentation, roadkill) are obvious, however, many of the BRI’s largest challeng...

The Himalayan orogenic belt produces frequent large earthquakes that impact population centers for a distance of over 2500 km. In the central region, the 2015 Gorkha earthquake in Nepal, with moment magnitude (MW) 7.8, partially ruptured a ~120-km by 80-km patch of the Main Himalayan Thrust (MHT),...

Persistent toxic substances released by industry and agriculture, or persistent organic pollutants (POPs) in South Asia have been travelling across the ridges and valleys of the Himalayas to reach the Tibetan Plateau, according to a recent study by researchers from the Institute of Tibetan Plateau...

El Niño–Southern Oscillation (ENSO for short) may explain why the lakes over the Tibetan Plateau dramatically shrank and then expanded between 2013 and 2017, according to a latest study by scientists from the Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences (ITPCAS), the Instit...