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Cenozoic sedimentary records and geochronological constraints of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau uplift
The Northeastern part of the present-day Qinghai-Tibet region had a higher elevation than the Southwestern part until the earliest Miocene, i.e., circa 23 million years ago. Thereafter, two phases (12-8 and 5 million years ...
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Mystery human fossils put spotlight on China
Fossils from two caves in south-west China have revealed a previously unknown Stone Age people and give a rare glimpse of a recent stage of human evolution with startling implications for the early peopling ...
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Mar 14, 2012 |
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Sand layer plays a key role in protecting the underlying permafrost in the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau
The effect of sand layer on the ground temperature of permafrost is one of the unsolved scientific problems in the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, the sand layers were found to play a key role in the protection of the underlying permafrost ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Mar 05, 2012 |
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New research suggests wild birds may play a role in the spread of bird flu
Wild migratory birds may indeed play a role in the spread of bird flu, also known as highly pathogenic avian influenza H5N1.
Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Mar 24, 2011 |
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5 infected with deadly pneumonic plague in Tibet
(AP) -- Chinese authorities say five people have been sickened with pneumonic plague in Tibet and that the deadly disease has killed one of them.
Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Sep 26, 2010 |
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Global warming spells doom for Asia's rivers
The livelihood of thousands of Tibetans living on China's highest plateau is under threat as global warming and environmental degradation dry up water sources for three mighty Asian rivers, experts say.
Jun 10, 2010 |
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Tibetans developed genes to help them adapt to life at high elevations
Researchers have long wondered why the people of the Tibetan Highlands can live at elevations that cause some humans to become life-threateningly ill - and a new study answers that mystery, in part, by showing ...
May 13, 2010 |
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China looks to 'combustible ice' as a fuel source
(PhysOrg.com) -- Buried below the tundra of China’s Qinghai-Tibet Plateau is a type of frozen natural gas containing methane and ice crystals that could supply energy to China for 90 years. China discovered ...
Technology / Energy & Green Tech
Mar 12, 2010 |
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Adaptive functional evolution of leptin in cold-adaptive pika family
Researchers at the Northwest Institute of Plateau Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences have put forward the viewpoint for the first time that adaptive functional evolution may occur in the leptin protein of the pika (Ochotona) ...
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Jan 23, 2008 |
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China Completes World's Highest Railway To Tibet
China announced on Saturday completion of the world's highest railway, the Qinghai-Tibet Railway, which stretches 1,956 kilometers from Xining to Lhasa cities in western China.
Oct 17, 2005 |
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Global warming threatens Tibetan rail link
An official from China's National Climate Center warned warmer winter and summers in a fragile environmental region will ruin a rail link to Tibet by 2050.
Jun 23, 2005 |
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