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 ...

One bristlecone pine tree was found with 35-year-old pine needles that were still functional and photosynthesizing despite drought. Most pines can only do this for 2 to 3 years .

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 ...

China Energy Investment Corporation said on Monday China's National Development and Reform Commission in Qinghai province has approved a hydro power plant worth 17 billion yuan ($2.46 billion) on ...

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.

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 ...

And unable to catch a bus as the sun set along the Qinghai-Tibetan highlands, we hitchhiked on a bed of pine tree limbs en route for their transformation to incense in the valley below.

Chinese scientists have discovered an 83.2-meter tree in Zayu county of southwest China's Tibet autonomous region, making it the tallest tree in the nation, according to the Institute of Botany of ...

Xi described the province as a ‘model of national unity’ and told local officials to uphold the party’s policies on governing Tibetan areas.