Sentences with phrase «on tibetan»

Glaciers in the Himalayas and on the Tibetan plateau, from which 40 % of the world derives its fresh water, are retreating fast, said Yao Tandong, a researcher with the Chinese academy of sciences.

The high - altitude meadows are rarely mentioned in discussions of global warming, but the changes to this ground have a profound impact on Tibetan politics and the world's ecological security.

The third - largest region of ice on the planet is located on the Tibetan Plateau and Himalaya - Hindu Kush mountains, also known as the Third Pole.

In 2006, a joint U.S. - Chinese team drilled four cores from the summit of Naimona» nyi, a large glacier 6,050 meters (19,849 feet) high on the Tibetan Plateau.

Nowhere is the melting more alarming than in the Himalayas and on the Tibetan plateau where the ice melt from glaciers sustains not only the dry - season flow of the Indus, Ganges, Yangtze, and Yellow rivers but also the irrigation systems that depend on them.

Can we close coal - fired power plants fast enough to save at least the larger glaciers in the Himalayas and on the Tibetan Plateau?

Foxtail and proso millet used to be cultivated on the Tibetan plateau 4,000 years ago when it was warmer, but as the climate got colder, they were abandoned for colder weather crops.

Warming across the Himalaya - Hindu Kush region has been 0.74 °C higher than the global average over the past 100 years, with warming on the Tibetan plateau being particularly pronounced, 1.35 °C higher than the global average.

Climate Central: The Indus river, originating on the Tibetan Plateau and flowing for nearly 2,000 miles through the disputed territory of Jammu and Kashmir and finally down to the province of Sindh and out into the Arabian Sea, is key to life in Pakistan.

Of these, the disappearance of glaciers in the Himalayas and on the Tibetan plateau threatens to shrink food supplies most sharply.

Ding J, Li F, Yang G, Chen L, Zhang B, Liu L, Fang K, Qin S, Chen Y, Peng Y, Ji C, He H, Smith P, Yang Y (2016) The permafrost carbon inventory on the Tibetan Plateau: a new evaluation using deep sediment cores.

Chen L, Liang J, Qin S, Liu L, Fang K, Xu Y, Ding J, Li F, Luo Y, Yang Y (2016) Determinants of carbon release from the active layer and permafrost deposits on the Tibetan Plateau.

Chinese government data show that the glaciers on the Tibetan Plateau that feed the Yellow and Yangtze Rivers are melting at a torrid pace.

Mountain glaciers are melting in the Andes, the Rocky Mountains, the Alps, and elsewhere, but nowhere does melting threaten world food security more than in the glaciers of the Himalayas and on the Tibetan Plateau that feed the major rivers of India and China.

The idea that shrinking glaciers on the Tibetan Plateau could one day drive up food prices at U.S. supermarket checkout counters is yet another sign of how integrated our global civilization has become.

All of them sit across the Himalayas from Kathmandu (they're only the worlds tallest mountain range after all) presumably in the mountains or on the Tibetan Plateau, since average temperatures are all 10 degrees C or more lower than Kathmandu.

Qian and colleagues focused their research on the Tibetan Plateau, a giant outcropping of land between China and India that's nicknamed the «Roof of the World», according to a Pacific Lab statement.

(Camera trap photo of a snow leopard on the Tibetan plateau (photo: Panthera)-RRB-

Researchers collected ice cores at five locations on the Tibetan Plateau.

Temperatures on the Tibetan Plateau — sometimes called Earth's «third pole» — have warmed by 0.3 °C (0.5 °F) per decade over the past 30 years, about twice the rate of observed global temperature increases.

The Third Pole Environment (TPE) program, launched by the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) in 2009, was dedicated to the study of regions on the Tibetan Plateau; home to millions of people and thousands of [continue reading...]

Sci Dev Net: China has agreed to share scientific knowledge with Nepal on the effects of climate and environmental changes on the Tibetan plateau in order to spur sustainable development.

«The Himalayan Glaciers on the Tibetan Plateau have been among the most affected by global warming.

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Apart from Xinjiang, most of these glaciers are situated on the Tibetan plateau.

The Third Pole region, which is centred on the Tibetan Plateau and concerns the interests of the surrounding countries and regions, [continue reading...]

Study links melting snow on the Tibetan Plateau to more frequent heat waves in Europe and north - east Asia — underlining the region's key role in the global...

Tibetan Plateau in Peril at China Green Symposium: «Meltdown: The Impact of Climate Change on the Tibetan Plateau,» January 16th, 8:00 am - 6:00 pm, Asia Society and Museum, Auditorium and 8th floor, 725 Park Avenue, New York.

The aim is to offer fresh perspectives on Tibetan Buddhist images that have rarely been understood outside of their cultural and devotional contexts, and to forge new connections between different spheres of artistic practice, both traditional and modern.

Michael Edwards, managing director, G Adventures argued previous government policies regarding nationalities made it logistically difficult to confirm travellers on Tibetan tours.

Open 11am - 5 pm Mondays and Thursdays, 11am - 6 pm Saturdays and Sundays, 11am - 9 pm Wednesdays and 11am - 10 pm Fridays, the Rubin Museum of Art is dedicated to the preservation, collection and display of art from the Himalayas and surrounding areas, with a particular focus on Tibetan art.

I usually say Seven Years in Tibet because it was the book that first got me interested in Tibetan culture, which led me to travel to (and ultimately live in) Asia and also write my thesis on Tibetan Buddhism.

Your exotic sojourn along the ancient Northern Silk Road takes a respite at Sofitel Xining, where 5 - star European luxury meets Chinese hospitality on the Tibetan Plateau.

The purpose of the Voluntary Open Health Registry is to collect health and genetic information on Tibetan Terriers.

Simon Petersen - Jones, DVM, Ph.D., is involved in PRA research on Tibetan Terriers at Michigan State University.

Dr. Greig was given a female Tibetan Terrier puppy after she operated on a Tibetan woman who had an ovarian cyst.

Out of this research came two books: The Psychedelic Experience (co-authored by Leary and Metzner, and based on The Tibetan Book of the Dead); and LSD (with Sidney Cohen and Lawrence Schiller).

A collaboration between illustrator Robert Beer, an expert on Tibetan silk brocade thangka paintings, and Tad Wise, who has previously written about Tibetan prayer flags, this book is intended not as a curiosity, but for reflection and meditation on the go.

What follows is a very literal take on the Tibetan Book of the Dead, as we follow Oscar's «soul» across the city watching the reactions of friends and loved ones to his death, their eventual fates in the aftermath, and delve back into his memories to see how he ended up here.

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To the skeptics who claim drinking butter isn't good for the body, Tsehua points to the type of butter consumed on the Tibetan plateau.

RICHLAND, Wash. — Using a climate model that can tag sources of soot from different global regions and can track where it lands on the Tibetan Plateau, researchers have determined which areas around the plateau contribute the most soot — and where.

A video interview in the freezing snow leopard landscape of Sangjiangyuan Nature Reserve on the Tibetan Plateau in Qinghai province, China.

The modern populations of these valleys, who share cultural and linguistic affinities with peoples found today on the Tibetan plateau, were commonly assumed to be the descendants of the earliest inhabitants of the Himalayan arc.

But that doesn't stop nearly 5 million people from living on the Tibetan Plateau, the world's highest at an average of 4000 meters.

And if the pika falters, it could mean trouble for an entire ecosystem: On the Tibetan Plateau, they are the most common small mammal to stay active through winter, providing one of the few foods for snow leopards, weasels, even bears.

The study was carried out at 60 different sites of alpine grassland on the Tibetan Plateau in China which was chosen for its extensive variation in climate across sites.

On the Tibetan Plateau in eastern China, 4 million solar panels silently soak up the sun as part of the Longyangxia Dam Solar Park.

From remote observatories on the Tibetan plateau to a cave in a Shanghai suburb, Chinese researchers are poised to conduct an audacious once - in - a-century experiment.

This revealed that the Himalayan species formed a separate group that is apparently evolutionarily older than the one found on the Tibetan Plateau and in adjacent mountain ranges to the east.