A river "capture" event in the Himalayas 89,000 years ago caused so much erosion it may have pushed the peak of Everest up by ...

Hoverfly pollinators visited buttercups in Thangu Valley, North Sikkim, one of the trans-continental sites chosen. Disclaimer: AAAS and EurekAlert! are not responsible for the accuracy of news ...

Researchers say that two rivers merged some 89,000 years ago and gave the mightiest peak in the Himalayas a huge growth spurt ...

Rising a couple of millimetres per year on average, Mt Everest is having a growth spurt. A new study suggests that a "pirated ...

The Himalaya golden-spectacled warbler (Seicercus burkii) lives in the Eastern Himalayas. There are several closely related species of the same genus in Central and South China.

Using Nasa's Landsat satellite images, the researchers divided the heights into four "brackets" between 4,150m and 6,000m. It covered different locations in the Hindu Kush Himalayas, ranging from ...

Days of heavy monsoon rains in Nepal have triggered widespread flooding and landslides across the Himalayan nation, killing ...

Keki N Daruwalla is a true pioneer in Indian writing in English. Among his ten volumes of poetry are The Keeper of the Dead, ...

Nepal aspires to be one of the favourite Yoga and spiritual destinations in the global travel market. The annual retreat will promote spiritual tourism ...

Flooding, landslides and shifts in agriculture are rapidly becoming typical at the roof of the world. Why do residents still lack actionable guidance about how to adapt? Kanchi Sherpa does not ...

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