The geology of the Himalayas is a record of the most dramatic and visible creations of the immense mountain range formed by plate tectonic forces and sculpted by weathering and erosion. The Himalayas, ...

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 ...

THE fourth part of the sketch of the geography and geology of the Himalayas is entirely the work of Mr. H. H. Hayden, and is devoted to a review of the present state of our knowledge of the Himalayas.

Two sub-parallel belts, Cenozoic aged Himalayan leucogranite on the Tibetan Plateau, extend east to west over more than 1000 km, regarded as the largest granitic belts in the world. The diverse ...

Shot in Bangladesh, Bhutan, China, India, Mongolia, Nepal and Pakistan, the film explores the dramatic and far-reaching effects of the Indian and Asian tectonic plates crashing below the Himalayas and ...

As the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) gets ready to publish the first instalment of its latest report, many critics of the reports have been harking back to the previous effort — and ...

Glaciers in India’s northeastern state of Sikkim are melting at a faster rate compared to those in other Himalayan regions, a study has revealed, confirming a development that had been discernible ...

DEHRADUN: Following a string of devastating natural calamities, including the 2013 Kedarnath tragedy, the 2021 Chamoli disaster, and the recent Dharali incident, India's scientific community is ...

Stretching from Ladakh’s arid heights to Arunachal Pradesh’s green ridges -- and spilling across Nepal, Bhutan and Sikkim --the Indian Himalayan belt is entering an era of heightened climatic stress ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Past earthquakes that damaged ancient temples perched high in the Himalayas could be harbingers ...