In a paper published in Science China Earth Sciences, a team of scientists present a new regional vegetation mapping method based on terrain - climate - remote sensing and its application on the ...

More than 26,000 hectares of trees will be planted along the 700-kilometer Tibet section of the Qinghai-Tibet railway over the next five years. The People's Liberation Army (PLA) and local ...

Chinese scientists used ancient tree pollen to reveal when the northeastern Qinghai-Tibet Plateau was uplifted into its current height, providing new clues to the formation of the roof of the world.

Hu Xiaochun checks the pine tree's health. [Photo by Zhang Duan/Zhou Mu/Xinhua] The 42-year-old Hu is the tree's 19th guardian. Daily, on his shift he checks on the tree every two hours, all year ...