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A cordycep dealer.

The vanishing pharmacy: How climate change is reshaping traditional medicine

Liz Kimbrough 15 Dec 2025
The adult female Chinese mountain cat found by Han Xue-song in winter near her den in the Sanjiangyuan region of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau.

Easy to catch, yet little known: Meet the Chinese mountain cat

Ruth Kamnitzer 18 Nov 2024
Mountain range, Tibet. Photo courtesy of Wa Da.

China’s Qinghai-Tibet ecosystem legislation is a landmark, but for whom? (commentary)

Zhengyang Wang 7 Jun 2023
Aerial view of burned areas in the Amazon Rainforest.

Amazon deforestation linked to reduced Tibetan snows, Antarctic ice loss: Study

Claire Asher 8 Mar 2023
wild yaks in Nepal

Nepal’s wild yaks ‘need more conservation than research’: Q&A with Naresh Kusi

Abhaya Raj Joshi 15 Nov 2022
Pits dug by the bears.

It’s no Yeti, but Tibetan brown bear’s presence in Nepal is no longer a myth

Abhaya Raj Joshi 26 Oct 2022
tibet landscape

EVs from Everest? Chinese lithium find in Himalayas raises concerns over water

Abhaya Raj Joshi 8 Mar 2022

Not your ordinary houseplant: World’s tallest begonia found in Tibet

Liz Kimbrough 7 Jan 2022

Dress like a polar bear: learning to love muskoxen at 15 below zero

Gloria Dickie 25 Sep 2018

New research might finally establish true identity of the mysterious Yeti

Mike Gaworecki 30 Nov 2017

China’s Domestic Dams: Hydropower not only an export for world’s biggest dam builder

Luc Forsyth 28 Feb 2017

Photos: Hundreds of new species discovered in the Eastern Himalayas

Mike Gaworecki 5 Oct 2015

Scientists find new monkey with unique penis

Morgan Erickson-Davis 10 Apr 2015

Booming cashmere trade eating up habitat for snow leopards, saiga, and wild yak

Damian Carrington 25 Jul 2013

Tibetan monks partner with conservationists to protect the snow leopard

Jeremy Hance 10 Jun 2013

Asia’s third largest animal may be on the rebound

Jeremy Hance 17 Jan 2013

Scary caterpillar fungus could lead to new cancer drug

Alex Hatheway 14 Jan 2013

Photo: high-altitude bird rediscovered after 80 years

Jeremy Hance 29 Oct 2012

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