The Himalayas Are Still Growing Every Year Mount Everest increases in height by about 4 millimeters each year due to tectonic ...

This story originally appeared on Undark and is part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Perched on a mountaintop in northern India, the Aryabhatta Research Institute of Observational Sciences (ARIES) ...

The Himalayas stretch across the northeastern portion of India. They cover approximately 1,500 mi (2,400 km) and pass through the nations of India, Pakistan, Afghanistan, China, Bhutan and Nepal. The ...

A recent study reveals the Himalayas' enduring strength stems not just from thick crust but from a rigid slice of Earth's mantle acting as a geological brace. This hidden layer reinforces the ...

British newspapers have uncovered what appears to be an embarrassing fact-checking omission by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, or IPCC. It regards the degree of glacial melting in the ...

“The secret of the mountain is that the mountains simply exist, as I do myself: the mountains exist simply, which I do not. The mountains have no ‘meaning,’ they are meaning; the mountains are. The ...

The Himalayas, the Asian mountain range that includes some of the tallest peaks in the world, turns out to be about 15 million years younger than geologists thought. Various dating techniques have ...

There are plenty of creatures that make long migrations, but the travels of the bar-headed goose (Anser indicus) are particularly arduous: This bird spends its winters at sea level in India and its ...

Plantlife is growing higher up Mount Everest (and other parts of the Himalayas) than it did in the past, say scientists writing in Global Change Biology—a trend that may reflect temperature rises. The ...

In India’s Western Himalayas, changes in altitude are so dramatic and steep that alluvial grasslands, subtropical forests, conifers and alpine meadows lie stacked almost on top of each other, ...

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