Lake Sediments Link 4,500-Year Fire History to Moisture Variability
A 4,500-year lake-sediment record from northwestern Yunnan associates the region’s strongest wildfire interval with reduced moisture and drier local conditions.
Tag: Tibetan Plateau
Ancient lake sediments reveal a shifting heartbeat of Pliocene rain over the Qaidam Basin
New sediment records from the Qaidam Basin show that the dominant orbital rhythm of Late Pliocene precipitation shifted from 100,000-year ...
Ancient Sand Grains Reveal the Yangtze River Was Born in the Early Miocene
A synthesis of 11,346 zircon U-Pb ages shows that the Yangtze River achieved its final transcontinental integration during the Early ...
Legumes quietly power the Tibetan Plateau’s carbon sinks as permafrost warms
A large-scale isotope survey across the Tibetan Plateau shows that nitrogen-fixing legumes underpin the region's carbon sink, and that losing ...
Himalayan Snow and Ice Reveal Two Decades of Dust and Pollution in the Cryosphere
A new review of two decades of data shows that Himalayan snow and ice carry a clear chemical signature of ...
First direct measurements reveal how heat and moisture flow over a Tibetan Plateau glacier
The first eddy covariance measurements over a continental glacier on the Tibetan Plateau reveal persistent sublimation, expose weaknesses in five ...
Thaw Slumps Overwhelm Greening in Tibet’s Sediment Surge
New research shows that tiny areas of abrupt permafrost thaw on the Tibetan Plateau deliver four times more sediment to ...
Ancient Weak Zone in Earth’s Crust Let Collision Stresses Race Across Tibet
New dating of the Altyn Tagh Fault shows that a weakness zone formed over 115 million years ago allowed stresses ...
Soils on the Roof of the World Are Quietly Rewriting the Plateau’s Air Chemistry
The first integrated quantification of soil reactive nitrogen emissions on the Tibetan Plateau reveals that soils release substantial HONO and ...
Machine Learning and Isotopes Reveal Hidden Groundwater Pathways in the Tibetan Plateau
Researchers combined self-organizing maps, K-means clustering, and isotope tracing to reveal that groundwater in the Zheduotang alpine gorge of the ...
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Mothers who receive childcare support from maternal grandparents show more parental warmth, finds NTU Singapore study
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University of Seville Breaks 120-Year-Old Mystery, Revises a Key Einstein Concept
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Bee body mass, pathogens and local climate influence heat tolerance
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Researchers record first-ever images and data of a shark experiencing a boat strike
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Groundbreaking Clinical Trial Reveals Lubiprostone Enhances Kidney Function
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