The Himalayas Are Still Growing Every Year Mount Everest increases in height by about 4 millimeters each year due to tectonic ...

Pilots over the Himalayas sometimes witness three suns due to sundogs, an optical phenomenon caused by sunlight refracting ...

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 ...

Geologically, the Himalayas stand as the most impressive natural monument on our planet Earth. Its snow-capped mountain peaks ...

Young Fold Mountain: The Himalayas are called the Young Fold Mountains because they formed recently in geological history and continue to rise every year. Their sharp peaks, deep valleys and rugged ...

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 ...

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 ...

In the heart of Asia, deep underground, two huge tectonic plates are crashing into each other — a violent but slow-motion bout of geological bumper cars that over time has sculpted the soaring ...

THERE is one statement in the interesting communication of my colleague, Mr. T. D. LaTouche, which seems to require qualification. After a tolerably extensive experience of the Himalayas, I should be ...