Mount Everest increases in height by about 4 millimeters each year due to tectonic plates constantly moving. The height is changing because the Indian tectonic plate is pushing below the Eurasian ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Himalayan rocks hold magnetic clues about their origins. Craig Robert Martin, CC BY-ND Breathing quickly in the thin mountain air, ...

Scientists may have just toppled a 100-year-old theory about what holds up the highest mountain range on Earth, new research shows. The Himalayan mountains formed in the collision between the Asian ...

Mountain snow and meltwater from glaciers in the Himalayas determine how much water is available for drinking, farming and ...

A certain defence of ecology may seem elitist but isn’t. We were recently in conversation with one of the residents in the Himalayan village we spend a large part of the year in. “We need a road ...

BENGALURU, India — Glaciers are melting at unprecedented rates across the Hindu Kush Himalayan mountain range and could lose up to 80% of their volume this century if greenhouse gas emissions aren’t ...

Himalayan glaciers are shrinking far more rapidly than glaciers in other parts of the world. Glaciers have lost roughly 40 percent of their area in the past several hundred years. The Himalayan ...

Do the mountains really change a person, or is that just something we say to make a hard trip sound meaningful afterward? I ...

Breathing quickly in the thin mountain air, my colleagues and I set down our equipment. We're at the base of a jagged outcrop that protrudes upwards out of a steep gravel slope. The muffled soundscape ...

Breathing quickly in the thin mountain air, my colleagues and I set down our equipment. We’re at the base of a jagged outcrop that protrudes upwards out of a steep gravel slope. The muffled soundscape ...