Breathing quickly in the thin mountain air, my colleagues and I set down our equipment. We’re at the base of a jagged outcrop that protrudes upwards out of a steep gravel slope. The muffled soundscape ...

Mount Everest increases in height by about 4 millimeters each year due to tectonic plates constantly moving. The height is changing because the Indian tectonic plate is pushing below the Eurasian ...

At least 10 people have been declared dead and 18 remain missing in the Himalayan mountains of India after several dozen mountaineers were caught in an avalanche Tuesday, police said Wednesday.

BENGALURU, India — Glaciers are melting at unprecedented rates across the Hindu Kush Himalayan mountain range and could lose up to 80% of their volume this century if greenhouse gas emissions aren’t ...

Mount Everest, located in the Himalayan Mountain Range, is the tallest mountain in the world. It reaches an elevation of 29,032 feet. The mountain itself is nestled between Nepal and Tibet, in an ...

Social media users on platforms like Reddit and Instagram have widely circulated the claim that wild cannabis grows naturally and abundantly in the Himalayas. Users in communities such as r/pics and r ...

Why Is Mount Everest Called the Third Pole of the Earth? Mount Everest lies in the Himalayan mountain system, which contains ...

With global warming accelerating, the Himalayas and high altitudes in the mountain range are warming 50 percent faster than ...

How and when do mountains grow? It is tempting to think of mountain formation as something that takes place only extremely gradually, on timescales of tens of millions of years. One tectonic plate ...

LADAKH, India (AP) — Carrying her 1-year-old son on her back, Tsering Dolma herds a dozen yaks into a stone-walled corral as evening approaches in the desolate mountains of India’s remote Ladakh ...

JOSHIMATH, India — Tending his fields one crisp winter morning, Chandra Singh Rana saw what looked like smoke emerging from the wooded slopes and snow-capped peaks that led to Nanda Devi, one of the ...

We have posted a couple blogs already about the behavioral changes from coronavirus having an effect on pollution around the world. Click here to read our post BEFORE & AFTER: NASA Satellite Data Show ...