The hydropower dam, in quake-prone Tibet, is set to be the world’s biggest. But China has said little about the project, ...

When The Global Times announced that Beijing was going to build a cascade of nine large HPPs on the Yarlung Tsangpo, human ...

Located close to one of Bolivia's major cities, La Paz, El Alto International is the highest international airport in the ...

Geologically, the Tibetan Plateau ranks among the most seismically active areas worldwide, serving as a convergence zone for the Indian and Eurasian tectonic plates ...

LHASA -- A relics site, first discovered in Southwest China's Xizang autonomous region in 2019, has been identified as the ...

The bridge in Guizhou province, China, will be nearly twice as high as the Eiffel Tower and have the largest span in a ...

In the aftermath of the devastating 6.8 magnitude earthquake that struck Xizang, the swift government action to rescue ...

Deadly earthquakes in the Himalayan region, with historical data and potential impacts on surrounding areas explained in ...

Authorities have yet to reveal how many monasteries and nunneries were damaged though they were quick to tally more than ...

According to a fact-sheet on the January 7 earthquake – which levelled thousands of houses and killed over 100 people in ...

On January 11, 10 earthquakes were recorded in Tibet and Afghanistan within a span of 12 hours, with tremors felt as far as India. While eight earthquakes occurred in Tibet, the ground shook twice in ...

BEIJING — Tibet's earthquake of magnitude 6.8 that killed 126 and damaged four water reservoirs this week highlights the risks from a hydropower building spree by Asian giants China and India in one ...