It's the night before China's October National Day, and close to 1,000 passengers are on the high-speed train bound for a place that was unreachable by rail until recently: Lhasa, Tibet.

The Golmud-Lhasa section of Qinghai-Tibet railway line is 1,142 kilometers long, with 960 kilometers of it sitting at 4,000 meters above sea level. The protection of the fragile ecosystem ...

overflow and breaching threatening infrastructure like the Qinghai-Tibet Railway, and chronic salinity reduction potentially altering existing carbon exchange patterns and exacerbating regional ...

As the train passes through the Tibetan Plateau, passengers are treated to incredible views of Qinghai Lake (China’s largest lake), the Kunlun mountain range and the Hoh Xil Nature Reserve.