At an elevation of over 4,500 metres, the Tibetan Plateau stores more freshwater than anywhere on the Earth outside the polar ice caps and It's the origin of ten of Asia's most consequential rivers like Brahmaputra, Mekong, Yangtze, Yellow, Salween, Indus, Irrawaddy, Ganges tributaries, Amu Darya, and the Tarim rivers which are collectively sustaining the lives and livelihoods of nearly two billion people across China, India, Bangladesh, Pakistan, Myanmar, Laos, Thailand, Cam

When the world envisions Earth's icy extremes, attention often turns to the vast, frozen frontiers of the Arctic in the north and the...