If we could put our planetary clock on fast forward, Earth’s surface would writhe with activity. Continents would scurry across the globe, oceans would open and close, and new mountains would shoot up ...

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 ...

Punjab floods, Himalayan disasters, and climate change impact highlighted in August, urging sustainable development in the ...

A new method for quantifying grandeur is reshuffling the pecking order of the planet’s most impressive peaks. Turns out ...

The Himalayas, called the "Third Pole," face rising disasters like floods, landslides, and quakes worsened by reckless urbanisation, deforestation, and tourism, with experts warning the fragile region ...

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.

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 ...

Editor's Note: Caprock Chronicles are edited each week by Jack Becker a retired TTU Librarian. He may be reached at jack.becker@ttu.edu Today’s article is by Mary Walker Clark, an award-winning travel ...

THE fourth part of the sketch of the geography and geology of the Himalayas is entirely the work of Mr. H. H. Hayden, and is devoted to a review of the present state of our knowledge of the Himalayas.

Mountain Research and Development, Vol. 40, No. 2, Open Issue (May 2020), pp. R1-R14 (14 pages) Mountains are facing growing environmental, social, and economic challenges. Accordingly, effective ...

Climate change is altering the face of the Himalayas, devastating farming communities and making Mount Everest increasingly treacherous to climb, some of the world's top mountaineers have warned.

THE original edition of this work, which appeared in 1908, was intended to mark the centenary of the first expedition sent to the Himalaya by the Survey of India for geographical purposes, having for ...