Over Changtang - The Tibetan High Plateau Clouds cover the Altyn-Tagh (Altun…

BORDER: Tibetan Plateau

New studies suggest that the Tibetan Plateau may have risen to its dizzying heights after 25 million years ago.

China plans a new national park system in the Tibetan plateau.

The "Roof of the World" is a harsh environment, nestled between the Himalayas, 14,700 feet up.

Researchers theorize that it wasn’t modern humans but an ancient species of humans called Denisovans that first lived in the Tibetan Plateau.

The experts traced the origin of cannabis back 28 million years to a region that sits 10,700 feet above sea level on the the Tibetan Plateau.

Namtso, known as the "Heavenly Lake," is located on the northern Tibetan Plateau, to the north of the main peak of the Nyenchen Tanglha Mountains. Covering an area of 1,961.5 square kilometers and situated at an elevation of 4,720 meters, it is the highest of Tibet's three sacred lakes and the second-largest saltwater lake in China, with a maximum depth of approximately 55 meters.