The Tsangpo Gorge in Tibet, one of the deepest canyons in the world, formed when tectonic forces pushed up the earth and steepened the path of a river that then caused massive erosion, a new study ...

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 ...

Biodiversity is critical to humanity's sustainable future, but global species extinction is accelerating due to environmental changes and human activities. The Yarlung Tsangpo River, which originates ...

New research suggests that the edge of the Tibetan plateau might have been preserved for thousands of years by ice and glacial debris at the mouth of many tributaries to the Tsangpo River. Those ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Yarlung Tsangpo Grand Canyon in Tibet, China, site of a planned dam. mayanming via Wikipedia China has begun construction on a ...

Outside correspondent Eva Holland is the author of Nerve: Adventures in the Science of Fear. She lives in Whitehorse, Yukon. There’s no shortage of incredible fissures in our planet’s surface, but ...

The Grand Canyon may seem gobsmackingly enormous—because it is—but it is not without competition. The Yarlung-Tsangpo River flows eastward across the Tibetan Plateau before cutting south across the ...

THE Tsangpo River, the main source of the Brahmaputra, flows placidly, from west to east, across Tibet until it reaches the eastern end of the Himalayan range, and vanishes into a terrific gorge. The ...

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