Himalayas formed one of the most glamorous and youngest ranges in the world. They lie between the Indo-Gangetic Plains, in the south and the Tibetan Plateau, in the north to create a natural barrier ...

Glaciers across the Hindu Kush Himalaya are melting at an accelerating rate with ice loss rates doubling since 2000 even as ...

Tree cover across India’s ecologically fragile Himalayan belt has declined by 2.27 per cent in just two years, according to ...

Another ICIMOD report released recently and titled ‘Changing Dynamics of Glaciers in the Hindu Kush Himalayan Region from ...

Researchers extracted tree cores from old deodar trees in Lahaul, Himachal Pradesh, to reconstruct 396 years of rainfall ...

Long before Mount Everest became the roof of the world, the rocks that form its summit were lying at the bottom of a sea.

High mountain peaks remain snow-covered despite proximity to the sun due to the Earth's atmosphere, which shields against excess solar rays and traps heat. Thinner, colder air at higher altitudes, ...