India’s climate is strongly influenced by its physical features, especially mountains. Despite being located in the northern ...

Which mountain is called the Third Pole? Learn why the Himalayan region is known as the Third Pole of the Earth, its massive ...

The youngest and oldest mountain ranges on Earth: It might surprise you to know that mountains aren't static; they are constantly being formed and weathered away over millions, even billions, of years ...

The Earth’s shaped by the relentless forces of plate tectonics over millions of years. Because of these movements formed the majestic mountain range we know today as the Himalayas. Did you know that ...

PUNJAB, India — People in India are under a nationwide lockdown to combat the coronavirus pandemic, but some are awestruck by what they're finally seeing outside their homes. Some in the northern ...

How were the Himalayan mountains shaped? Surprisingly, long before the collision between what is now India and Central Asia.

Matthew J. Kohn receives funding from the National Science Foundation and the Department of Energy. These minerals are found in metamorphic rocks – rocks transformed by heat, pressure or both. One of ...

An important portion of the Himalaya’s glacier cover is currently stable and, thanks to an insulating layer of debris, may be even growing, a new study finds. The study’s conclusion contradicts a ...

A mountain map of the snowy Himalayas recently went viral on social media, Yangtse Evening Post reported. Dubbed the "the greatest ever map of Himalaya", the picture has received more than 20 million ...

This vast landscape, stretching across Ladakh, Himachal Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Sikkim, and Arunachal Pradesh, is home to a ...