Earth's continents are slowly moving across the planet's surface due to plate tectonics, culminating in regions of crustal expansion and collision. In the latter case, high temperatures and pressures ...

Researchers from Centre de Recherches Pétrographiques et Géochimiques (CNRS / University of Lorraine), in collaboration with CEREGE have shown that erosion in the Himalayas is primarily governed by ...

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, ...

Astronauts onboard the International Space Station (ISS) shot these photographs of the Himalayas, the Tibetan Plateau, and the Indo-Gangetic plain. A team of researchers at the Stanford Doerr School ...

Over two hundred fifty million years ago, India, Africa, Australia, and South America were all one continent called Pangea. Over the next several million years, this giant southern continent proceeded ...

There are almost 22,000km² of glacier ice in the Himalaya, the spectacular arc of mountains that stretches from north-west India to south-east China. These glaciers are the source of mighty rivers ...

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 ...

The early melting of the Amarnath Ice Shivling has once again drawn attention to changing weather patterns in the Himalayas.

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 ...