Tibetan Plateau
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Oct 26, 2026
speaker_1HOST
They used an incredibly clever geographical patchwork to recreate the era.
speaker_1HOST
For instance, they used Upper Mustang to double for the arid Tibetan Plateau.
speaker_0HOST
Upper Mustang, for anyone listening who hasn't been, that's up near the border, right? A very high altitude, remote desert region?
speaker_1HOST
Yes, exactly.
Jiang XueqinHOST
And Hong Kong is probably much more resilient than other places, okay? But I'll be honest with you, I don't think Southeast Asia has a good future because there are a lot of structural contradictions within Southeast Asia, okay? First of all, you have a lot of people here with very few resources.
Jiang XueqinHOST
If you look at a map of Southeast Asia, most people get their fresh water supply through the Tibetan Plateau, right? Let's just say, that there's a major crisis, and now people fight over, the water, okay? This would really quickly spiral out of control.
Jiang XueqinHOST
Right now we fight over oil, but I guarantee you in 10 years' time we'll be fighting over water.
Jiang XueqinHOST
And I think Southeast Asia is extremely vulnerable because of its very limited water supply, right? Southeast Asia gets water downstream from the Tibetan Plateau, and right now China controls the Tibetan Plateau.
Jiang XueqinHOST
I'm just saying geopolitically, Southeast Asia is in a lot of trouble.
Jiang XueqinHOST
Too many people, too few resources, too many ethnic conflicts in the area.
IreneHOST
It's mixing with surface waters and the consequent inhibition of ice regrowth.
IreneHOST
Oklahoman and Chinese scientists who conducted a decade-long study of grasslands concluded that antibiotic research in soil was being spurred by global warming, and Chinese scientists who heated patches of ancient permafrost on the Tibetan Plateau over a five-year period reported alarming losses of carbon stores.
IreneHOST
Climate change is expected to push arena viruses carried by rodents into new parts of South America, and the delayed freezing of Finnish lakes has resulted in colder overwinter lake temperatures due to the late formation of surface ice.
IreneHOST
Sea ice loss has been driving polar bears to visit human sites, and underlying conditions indicated by a manifest lack of fatness may escalate such encounters.
NyandoHOST
La práctica va acoplada al sentido común, no sin el sentido común
Yeshe KaytupHOST
On the Tibetan Plateau
NyandoHOST
En la llanura del Tíbet
Yeshe KaytupHOST
With a wind chill factor of thirty to sixty below zero in winter
NyandoHOST
Hay diferencias culturales
Yeshe KaytupHOST
...
Yeshe KaytupHOST
in the Tibetan Plateau.
NyandoHOST
En la Llanura Tibetana
speaker_3NARRATOR
It is tall in a way that distorts your sense of what altitude means because it rises from a base elevation of only about 2,000 feet above sea level, giving it a vertical relief, the distance from base to summit, of over 18,000 feet.
speaker_3NARRATOR
Everest, by comparison, rises from the Tibetan Plateau at about 17,000 feet, so its actual rise above its surroundings is roughly 12,000 feet.
speaker_3NARRATOR
Denali's rise is greater.
speaker_3NARRATOR
The mountain is, in terms of sheer mass lifting itself above the land around it, the most dramatic vertical presence on Earth.
Gary MannersHOST
The study's larger significance is geographic as much as anatomical.
Gary MannersHOST
Denisovan fossils and genetic signals have now been reported from Siberia, the Tibetan Plateau, northern and southern China, Taiwan and parts of Southeast Asia, supporting the idea of a widespread and adaptable Asian lineage.
Gary MannersHOST
The large-bodied Denisovan suggested by leg bones from the Taiwan Strait add another dimension to a population that may have occupied very different environments.
Gary MannersHOST
The new morphology-based framework should help researchers test whether other disputed East Asian fossils belong to the same lineage.
Shane BiggamHOST
The epic of King Ghassar, also called The Iliad of the East, is regarded as the world's longest living epic, which was inscribed on UNESCO's Intangible Cultural Heritage List back in 2009.
Shane BiggamHOST
It's being passed down orally by singers and storytellers on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau and surrounding areas.
Shane BiggamHOST
At 57 past the hour, Beijing cloudy overnight.
Shane BiggamHOST
It's down to 5 degrees.
Christian DrapeauGUEST
Sea buckthorn berry extract.
Christian DrapeauGUEST
Sea buckthorn berry from high altitudes, so the Tibetan Plateau.
Christian DrapeauGUEST
Aloe macroclata from Madagascar.
Christian DrapeauGUEST
Ficoidan from different kind of brown seaweeds.
speaker_0HOST
It's a common trait.
speaker_1HOST
But in every single molecularly confirmed Denisovan individual ever tested, whether it's the DNA from that tiny pinky bone in the freezing Siberian cave or proteins from jaw bones found on the high altitude Tibetan plateau, this specific spot holds a distinctly different amino acid.
speaker_0HOST
It doesn't hold arginine.
speaker_1HOST
No, it holds lysine.
17 MINS LATER
speaker_0HOST
Let's talk about that geographic spread because it is staggering when you map it out.
speaker_0HOST
If we look at the confirmed and highly likely Denisovan sites based on this new morphological and molecular data, they span from the freezing, bitter cold of Harbin in the far north of China.
speaker_1HOST
All the way to the extreme high-altitude, oxygen-deprived environment of the Tibetan Plateau.
speaker_1HOST
There's a famous site there, Shahe, where a Denisovan mandible was found by a monk in a sacred cave at over 10,000 feet of elevation.
Lonnie ThompsonGUEST
And that's because we've been working in China for over 40 years.
Lonnie ThompsonGUEST
And we have these collaborative agreements by which has allowed us to drill five different sites across the Tibetan plateau with our Chinese colleagues.
Lonnie ThompsonGUEST
So it's been a very collaborative effort and could not be done without that collaboration.
Lonnie ThompsonGUEST
That's the other thing that I have learned in our projects is that if we want to deal with issues like climate change, we have to build bridges.
15 MINS LATER
Lonnie ThompsonGUEST
It's just that there's so much special interest and money that comes from these older sources of energy that have put the brakes on this transition taking place.
Lonnie ThompsonGUEST
But it will take place.
Lonnie ThompsonGUEST
And I just... over in China, in Tibet, they just opened the largest solar field on Earth up on the Tibetan Plateau at 10,000 feet.
Lonnie ThompsonGUEST
And it just makes so much sense because you have a large part of the Earth's atmosphere below you.
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