The Golmud-Lhasa section of Qinghai-Tibet railway line ... met in the construction of the line. Plateau ecosystem not markedly affected The Tibetan Plateau is the source of many rivers and home ...

Tibet is situated on the Tibet Plateau, which includes parts of neighboring Chinese provinces Qinghai, Sichuan, Gansu and Yunnan. These areas used to be part of Tibet until Chinese rule.

especially on the edges of the Qinghai-Tibetan plateau above the plate boundaries where the earth's crust is more prone to movement. A quake of magnitude 8.0 that killed 69,227 people in May 2008 ...

China has discovered vast lithium reserves, often referred to as “white gold,” in Tibet. With this discovery, China has become the world’s second-largest holder of lithium reserves, trailing ...

The vast Qinghai-Tibetan plateau has been jolted by seismic activity since Tuesday, including a deadly 6.8-magnitude quake in the foothills of the Himalayas in Tibet and a smaller 3.1-magnitude ...

A magnitude 5.5 earthquake shook parts of the Chinese province of Qinghai on Wednesday, with its epicentre located near the source of the Yellow River, the main natural waterway serving northern China ...