Why are the streams of this river so tangled? And why do they keep moving? This video shows the changing channels of the Yarlung Zangbo River in Tibet over nearly forty years. The images in this timelapse, spanning from 1988 to 2025, were acquired by the NASA/USGS Landsat satellites. The images are false-color and incorporate wavelengths of light undetectable to human eyes, to better distinguish between water (blue) and land (brown). Braided rivers form when fast water meets too much sediment. R

Yarlung Tsangpo River (Brahmaputra) in Tibet. | SnowLion Tours - Journey to Tibet

The Yarlung Zangbo River Grand Canyon is the deepest canyon in the world. With a total length of about 504 kilometers, its altitude spans from 7,782 meters at Mount Namjagbarwa to 550 meters around the Yarlung Zangbo River Valley in Medog County, Nyingchi City of southwest China's Tibet Autonomous Region. Places along the middle and lower reaches of the river are rich in biodiversity, and the whole region is known as a natural vegetation museum and the last secret wonderland. #GrowingTibet | CGT

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The Yarlung Tsangpo Grand Canyon is Earth's largest terrestrial canyon, stretching 314 miles long and almost 20,000 feet from top to bottom at its deepest point in the Tibet Autonomous Region. Learn more 👉 https://trib.al/xUpFq1v | LiveScience