Chinese researchers have successfully delivered a cloned yak via caesarean section (C-section). Born on July 11, the baby yak was bred at a breeding base in Damxung County, southwest Tibet—also known ...

Indoor air pollution from burning yak dung as a household fuel in Tibet. Atmospheric Environment, 2015; 102: 406 DOI: 10.1016/j.atmosenv.2014.11.060 ...

In a first-of-its-kind achievement, China successfully cloned yak to enhance food production and sustainability in the ...

Its impact is greatest at high altitudes. "Black carbon emissions from burning biofuel such as yak dung have not been quantified before in the atmosphere of the Himalayas," Saikawa says.

Cloned yak weighed 33.5 kilograms at birth, significantly more than most newborn yaks, according to researchers.

Glaciers in the Himalayas and on the Tibetan Plateau are rapidly melting. Black carbon soot from power plants and fires that falls on the snow and ice there is one reason why, and now scientists ...

EASTERN TIBET, China – Evening is approaching, and 10-year-old Maju Dorje has one last chore on the mountainside. He has to coax home a herd of baby yaks. He yells at them, hurls rocks at the… ...

A visitor stands outside the Yak Museum. Photo: Courtesy of Wu Yuchu Unlike many other non-native officials in Southwest China's Tibet Autonomous Region, who usually head east when they retire, Wu ...

So suited to Tibet is the yak that it barely can survive anywhere else. A few reside in the world`s major zoos; otherwise they seldom are found away from Tibetan highlands. ”Some Tibetans have ...