Recent scientific discoveries have challenged our understanding of the geology beneath the Himalayas, suggesting that a ...

Mount Everest stands 8,849 metres tall and continues to grow by a few millimetres each year. A study conducted in the 1980s ...

Michael Paul Searle is Professor of Earth Sciences at Oxford University. Speaking with Srijana Mitra Das at Times Evoke , he talks about mountains, ma ...

An international team of scientists has discovered the first oceanic microplate in the Indian Ocean–helping identify when the initial collision between India and Eurasia occurred, leading to the birth ...

Craig Robert Martin receives funding from the National Science Foundation (NSF). Breathing quickly in the thin mountain air, my colleagues and I set down our equipment. We’re at the base of a jagged ...

Researchers examined the plant life in the China's Hengduan Mountains, the Himalaya Mountains, and the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau. Using DNA to build family trees of species, they learned that the ...

Discover 20 trekking picks for adventurers. Take on your ultimate Himalayan challenge now with these superb routes!

L adakh, which falls in the rain shadow of the Himalayas, is described as a cold desert with very low rainfall and snowfall.

After breaking a speed climbing record on Himalayan peak Manaslu, ultra runner Tyler Andrews breaks another climbing record ...

Three climbers, including a foreign national, were killed and eight others were missing after an avalanche hit a climbing expedition on a Himalayan peak in Nepal, police said on Monday.

One of the big questions in biology is why certain plants and animals are found in some places and not others. Figuring out how species evolve and spread, and why some places are richer in species ...