But scientists say there is a bigger disturbing picture unfolding in the Himalayas. They say the pace at which China and India are building infrastructure across the Himalayan region can ...

This background essay introduces the diversity of China's natural and man-made features, as well as the relative population of its various areas. Used as background information, learners can explore ...

This is the view of Atma Ramagat who works with one of the many community-based WWF projects addressing the consequences of climate change in the Himalayas ... in which new approaches to ancient ...

According to a new study, a river roughly 46 miles (75 kilometers) from Everest was "captured" by another around 89,000 years ...

That ancient collision is still lifting the Himalayas. However ... a professor of geology at China University of Geosciences in Beijing. “The main driver of Everest’s height remains the ...

KATHMANDU — In the isolated kingdom of Lo Manthang, tucked away in Nepal’s Himalayas, ancient structures stand tall on arid lands that only allowed tourists in from the late 1990s. Amid a ...

This is how the mountains of the Himalayas in Asia were formed ... (usually those that stand on their own) are created by ancient volcanoes. Ben Nevis in Scotland was once a very large active ...

NEW DELHI--India said Thursday it was using diplomatic channels with China to de-escalate a military standoff in a remote Himalayan border region where 20 Indian soldiers were killed this week.

GUWAHATI, India--India has moved troops to its eastern stretch of border with China since clashes erupted between the nuclear-armed rivals on the western part of their border in the Himalayas in ...

Researchers have unearthed nearly 1,700 ancient virus species hidden within the glacial ice of the Himalayas, a new study has found. According to the paper published in the journal Nature ...

Caretaker Foreign Minister Jalil Abbas Jilani will represent Pakistan at the third two-day Trans-Himalaya Forum for International Cooperation, beginning in China's Nyingchi city Wednesday. The ...