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 ...

From the sacred blue poppies that can be found growing in the high-altitude meadows of the Himalayas, to the elusive orchids that can be found growing in the misty Himalayan forests, the flora that ...

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 British ultra-runner speaks about how the Himalayan mountain range represents untapped potential for mountaineers, runners, and other athletes. The Himalayas are amazing for pioneers like Kieren ...

LONDON (Reuters) - Some glaciers in the Himalayas mountain range have gained a small amount of mass between 1999 and 2008, new research shows, bucking the global trend of glacial decline. The study ...

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 ...

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 ...

A view of the Himalayas and Mount Everest seen from the International Space Station.Credit: NASA. I was looking at the geology subreddit the other day and someone asked an intriguing question: why ...