The Himalayas are far more than a mountain range. They are India’s ecological lifeline, the source of many of its greatest ...

Every great river has a beginning. Some start as tiny trickles flowing from a hillside. Others emerge from melting glaciers hidden high among snow-covered peaks ...

The oceans are the final destination of weathering products from the land and its transport via rivers, with those in the Himalayan mountains alone moving one billion tons of sediment each year. To ...

Mount Everest (also known as Chomolungma or Sagarmāthā) is famously the highest mountain in the Himalayas and indeed on Earth. But why? At 8,849 metres above sea level, Everest is around 250m taller ...

This video showcases the breathtaking landscape of Langtang Valley, Bagmati Province, Nepal, where steep forested mountains ...

How did Mount Everest come to be the world’s tallest mountain, towering more than 200 metres above the next two highest peaks? Geologists suggest the mountain owes part of its extra height to two ...

Throughout human history, civilisations have been named after the rivers along which they flourished: Indus Valley, Nile, Tigris-Euphrates. Many of these cultures later collapsed, partly because they ...

The Himalayan mountain system sustains some of the world’s largest river networks, including the Indus, Ganges and Brahmaputra basins, by regulating water through snow and glacier melt, monsoon ...

Glaciers are melting at unprecedented rates across the Hindu Kush Himalayan mountain ranges and could lose up to 80% of their volume this century if greenhouse gas emissions aren't sharply reduced, ...

When a mountainside gave way before dawn on 24 June, engulfing the NEEPCO residential colony at Poosa village in Arunachal ...