News tagged with tibetan plateau
Researchers solve questions about Ethiopians' high-altitude adaptations
Over many generations, people living in the high-altitude regions of the Andes or on the Tibetan Plateau have adapted to life in low-oxygen conditions. Living with such a distinct and powerful selective pressure ...
Jan 20, 2012 |
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Researchers identify insect host species of a famous Tibetan medicinal fungus
A team of researchers from the Institute of Microbiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences (Xiao-Liang Wang and Yi-Jian Yao), summarized all the available information on the insect species associated with the Tibetan ...
Sep 08, 2011 |
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Researchers discover important woolly rhino fossil
A paper to be published on September 2, 2011 in the authoritative magazine Science reveals the discovery of a primitive woolly rhino fossil in the Himalayas, which suggests some giant mammals first evolve ...
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Sep 01, 2011 |
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Tibetan glaciers melting, says Dalai Lama
(AP) -- The Dalai Lama said Saturday that India should be seriously concerned about the melting of glaciers in the Tibetan plateau as millions of Indians use water that comes from there.
Apr 02, 2011 |
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The impact of plate tectonics
Helping to settle a debate over plate tectonics that has divided geologists for decades, scientists at Harvard University have moved a step closer to understanding the complex physical deformation of one of ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Mar 09, 2011 |
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Polluted snow causes early runoff, stronger monsoons in Asia
In some cases, soot -- the fine, black carbon silt released from stoves, cars and manufacturing plants -- can pack more of a climatic punch than greenhouse gases, according to a paper published in the journal ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Mar 08, 2011 |
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Soot packs a punch on Tibetan Plateau's climate
(PhysOrg.com) -- In some cases, soot – the fine, black carbon silt that is released from stoves, cars and manufacturing plants – can pack more of a climatic punch than greenhouse gases, according ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Mar 03, 2011 |
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Frogs evolution tracks rise of Himalayas and rearrangement of Southeast Asia
The evolution of a group of muscled frogs scattered throughout Asia is telling geologists about the sequence of events that led to the rise of the Himalayas and the Tibetan plateau starting more than 55 million ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Aug 05, 2010 |
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Heat and moisture from Himalayas could be a key cause of the South Asian monsoon
Harvard climate scientists suggest that the Tibetan Plateau—thought to be the primary source of heat that drives the South Asian monsoon—may have far less of an effect than the Himalayas and other surrounding mountains. As ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Jan 13, 2010 |
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A unique geography -- and soot and dust -- conspire against Himalayan glaciers
"So many disparate elements, both natural and man-made, converge in the Himalayas," said William Lau, a climatologist from NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md. "There's no other place in the ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Dec 15, 2009 |
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New Study Turns Up the Heat on Soot's Role in Himalayan Warming (w/ Video)
(PhysOrg.com) -- Soot from fire in an unventilated fireplace wafts into a home and settles on the surfaces of floors and furniture. But with a quick fix to the chimney flue and some dusting, it bears no impact ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Dec 14, 2009 |
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Massive dust storm in China circled the world in 13 days: study
A wind storm that ripped across western China's Taklimakan desert kicked up hundreds of thousands of tonnes of dust that high-altitude winds then carried around the world in less than two weeks, a study says.
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Jul 20, 2009 |
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China environmental phenomena monitored from space
China is in a very seismically active area and has had many catastrophic earthquakes during its history. A joint European-Chinese team is using satellite radar data to monitor ground deformation across major continental faults ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Jul 06, 2009 |
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