Chang, a refreshing, low-strength brew, and arak, its stronger relative, have long been part of Tibetan rituals.

I will never forget my first dinosaur wing. I was a college student, on my first international expedition, preparing to venture into the mountains of Tibet in search of Jurassic dinosaurs. Our team assembled in Beijing, and as we rushed through the galleries and storehouses of the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, I stole a fleeting glance, from across the room. A skeleton of the little carnivore Microraptor, its long arms unfurled, adorned with feathers forming a broad sheet. The wings sparkled in the low light; I was mesmerised. And then we were hustled along.

The controversy reveals a form of externalised censorship.

Rooted in the Buddhist teaching of the bardo − states of ‘in-between’ − the text offers a way to understand death, life and transformation as deeply intertwined.

Scientists mapped the evolution of 140 glacial lakes in Alaska and found a way to tell how much larger and destructive they can get as their glaciers melt.

The essays in a new anthology offer two distinct ways of interpreting the Promethean legacy of scientific progress.

Canada needs to move towards a carbon-neutral economy, and the biomass sectors have a key role to play in this transition.

Lack of opportunities are driving young people away from rural villages, leaving fewer people to scare away the wildlife.

China is still expanding its coal-fired power stations and depends on coal in its energy network.

The loss of the central role of people in today’s complex global systems is the greatest danger of all. In Kenya and Amdo Tibet, it can be rediscovered.