The Tibetan Plateau, also known as the “roof of the world,” is getting hotter. This process is especially fast in places marked by retreating snow, according to new research by scientists from the University of Portsmouth and the Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research of the Chinese Academy of Sc...

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...

In the recent issue (December 19, 2018) of Nature Communications, Wang et al. reported that summer carbon uptake of the terrestrial ecosystem in the northern high latitudes has been significantly weakened by ongoing climate warming. In other words, warmer years were associated with lower ecosystem...

Anchiornis, one of the earliest feathered dinosaurs ever discovered, was found to have the ability to fly. However, can it fly like birds today? A new study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) by researchers from China and the U.S. indicated that the answer is n...

Pan-TPE scientists have published on Nature their research findings on the collapse of two glaciers in western Tibet in 2016.Surges and glacier avalanches are expressions of glacier instability, and among the most dramatic phenomena in the mountain cryosphere. Until now, the catastrophic...