Most of Asia's major rivers find their source on the Tibetan plateau. However as the global temperature rises, Tibet’s glaciers are melting and grassland permafrost is thawing at an alarming rate.

More information: Siru Gao et al, Permafrost temperature dynamics and its climate relations in various Tibetan alpine grasslands, CATENA (2024). DOI: 10.1016/j.catena.2024.108065. www ...

This is the metadata section. Skip to content viewer section. The official adoption of Buddhism by the Tibetan state in the mid-8th Century (761-762 CE) was relatively late compared to its permeation ...