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

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

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 ...

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

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 ...

The world's highest and most spectacular mountains, the Himalaya of Nepal, India, and Bhutan, are built on the foundations of a much older mountain system, University of Arizona geoscientists have ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Himalayas house some of the most breathtaking glaciers in the world. Yet there is one that calls out to the imagination ...

India has deployed its Russian-made T-90 tanks against Chinese forces in the disputed border region of Ladakh. But moving 45-ton tanks in a mountainous region with poor roads and bridges comes with ...