The Conversation
AI helps tell snow leopards apart, improving population counts for these majestic mountain predators
Conservationists have to search rough terrain and thousands of automated photographs to find the elusive cats. Artificial intelligence can help them work more accurately and more efficiently.
China’s Everest obsession: following Mallory’s footsteps a century on, I saw how tourism and climate change are transforming the mountain
A century after the disappearance of explorer George Mallory, his photos and diary offer a valuable baseline for investigating impacts of tourism and climate change on the Tibet side of Everest.
‘The Eternal Queen of Asian Pop’ sings one last encore from beyond the grave
Discovered in a Tokyo warehouse, a long-lost ballad by Taiwanese pop star Teresa Teng rekindles memories of an icon whose voice transcended Asia’s political fault lines.
Disaster authoritarianism: how autocratic regimes deal with earthquakes
Quake-ravaged Tibet has had to contend with censorship and political repression.









