A gigantic cypress tree found in a canyon in Tibet stands as the tallest tree ever discovered in Asia and the second tallest in the world. The tree, measuring over 335ft in height and nearly 9.2ft in ...

Why it's incredible: The gorge is longer and three times deeper than the Grand Canyon in Arizona. The Yarlung Tsangpo Grand Canyon is the world's largest terrestrial canyon — longer than even the ...

In a remarkable twist of evolutionary adaptation, the rare Tibetan cypress, Cupressus gigantea, has shown unexpected genetic resilience. Despite facing the brink of extinction due to climate change ...

Mountain Research and Development, Vol. 24, No. 2 (May, 2004), pp. 166-173 (8 pages) A bioclimatic model was used to simulate distributions of the dominant tree species on the Tibetan Plateau. The ...

Study tracking climate patterns across thousands of years found that periods of lower rainfall coincided with some major political upheavals Researchers have used tree rings to track rainfall patterns ...

Phenological responses of vegetation to climate, in particular to the ongoing warming trend, have received much attention. However, divergent results from the analyses of remote sensing data have been ...