Desert dust storms carry harmful bacteria from western India to the Himalayas, altering airborne microbes and increasing risks of respiratory, skin, and gastrointestinal infections in high-altitude ...

The Himalayas Mountain Range stretches across South and Central Asia, forming the highest and most extensive mountain system ...

Experts say dwindling snowfall during winter will impact the lives and livelihoods of millions.

Scientists have found that, despite a vast difference in precipitation between the north and south sides of the Himalaya Mountains, rates of erosion are indistinguishable across these mountains. Santa ...

For the first time in the history of the world, billions of people have stopped what they were doing and are hiding indoors, fearful that an invisible enemy might get them. And as tragic as all this ...

Dust plumes from western India carry pathogens associated with respiratory, skin, and gastrointestinal diseases to the ...

How and when do mountains grow? It is tempting to think of mountain formation as something that takes place only extremely gradually, on timescales of tens of millions of years. One tectonic plate ...

The Indian Himalaya Mountains are in the spotlight of tourism safety after seven tourists mountain climbing went missing last week. The missing visitors include two Americans, four Britons, and an ...

Residents in the northern Indian state of Punjab say they're seeing the Himalayas for the first time in decades while on coronavirus lockdown. Since India was put on lockdown in March to help prevent ...

Researchers examined the plant life in the China's Hengduan Mountains, the Himalaya Mountains, and the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau. Using DNA to build family trees of species, they learned that the ...