In New York, chef Eric Ripert serves grated yak cheese in a plate of truffled pasta. Photo: Courtesy of Aldo Sohm Wine Bar “We call every day to see if it’s ready,” says chef Eric Ripert. “They say, ...

Yaks are coming back. At least they are in a remote reserve on the Tibetan Plateau. Researchers recently counted nearly 1,000 wild yaks in a rugged northern area of the plateau known as Hoh Xil, which ...

BEIJING, Nov. 10 -- It would be hard to overstate the gratitude Tibetan nomads feel toward their beloved yaks. The most common Tibetan word for yak translates roughly as "a wish granting gem that ...

Yaks a-runnin' in a rugged northwestern area of the Tibetan Plateau. Yaks are coming back. At least they are in a remote reserve on the Tibetan Plateau. Researchers recently counted nearly 1,000 wild ...

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 them, chases ...

The curator of the world's first yak museum sparked a Tibetan cultural craze when he visited Peking University on Mar 13 to give a two-hour lecture. Wu Yuchu, curator of the Yak Museum of Tibet, ...

BOYNE CITY, MI-- Tucked on a rolling hillside south of Boyne City sits a green pasture that is teeming with life and a break from reality. The peaceful Kiwidinok Farm is home to around 60 four-legged ...

Scott Gold includes a few recipes in his book, "The Shameless Carnivore: A Manifesto for Meat Lovers." For New Orleans readers, he especially recommended the Tibetan yak momos, dumplings made with ...

High on the Tibetan plateau, nomadic yak-herders have been grazing their semi-wild herds for 10,000 years, making theirs the world’s oldest existing agricultural enterprise. During the brief summer, ...

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 say ...

Yaks are coming back. At least they are in a remote reserve on the Tibetan Plateau. Researchers recently counted nearly 1,000 wild yaks in a rugged northern area of the plateau known as Hoh Xil, which ...