The Himalayas Mountain Range stretches across South and Central Asia, forming the highest and most extensive mountain system ...

A snowless Himalayan winter is raising alarms across India. Experts explain what a ‘snow drought’ means and why it matters ...

Much less winter snow is falling on the Himalayas, leaving the mountains bare and rocky in many parts of the region in a ...

BRECKENRIDGE Mountain to Mountain, the Breckenridge-based organization dedicated to promoting education and community development in remote mountain communities, will host a Views of the Himalaya ...

This winter, the western Himalayas look unfamiliar. Mountain slopes that are usually wrapped in thick layers of snow during December and January are largely bare, exposing rock and soil across ...

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 ...

India and China’s plates smashed into each other 55 million years ago, and this collision ultimately created the Himalayas, home to the world’s biggest mountains..but we weren’t exactly sure when this ...

Scientists have found that, despite a vast difference in precipitation between the north and south sides of the Himalaya Mountains, rates of erosion are indistinguishable across these mountains. Santa ...

For the first time in the history of the world, billions of people have stopped what they were doing and are hiding indoors, fearful that an invisible enemy might get them. And as tragic as all this ...

Violence marked most of the world’s trouble spots last week: bloodletting in Algeria, upheaval in Argentina, a shadow war in South Viet Nam, a coup d’état in Syria. Almost unnoticed was an event of ...