(TibetanReview.net, Mar09’25) – While lakes in many parts of the world have lost water over the past three decades, leading to severe droughts, the number and size of those in the northern part of the Tibetan Plateau, referred to as the “roof of the world”, have risen sharply, according to a NASA survey spanning three decades published in 2024. Researchers have examined the current and anticipated effects of these expanding lakes, warning of “widespread societal and ecological impacts”.
New images published this week by the American space agency, NASA, within the framework of its Earth Observatory program, show two different sides of a same area on the Tibetan plateau. The first image, ...





