A mountain map of the snowy Himalayas recently went viral on social media, Yangtse Evening Post reported. Dubbed the "the greatest ever map of Himalaya", the picture has received more than 20 million ...

Michael Paul Searle is Professor of Earth Sciences at Oxford University. Speaking with Srijana Mitra Das at Times Evoke , he talks about mountains, ma ...

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 ...

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 ...

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The world's highest and most spectacular mountains, the Himalaya of Nepal, India, and Bhutan, are built on the foundations of a much older mountain system, University of Arizona geoscientists have ...

Earth image As the International Space Station flew 418 kilometres above the Himalaya Mountains, the crew snapped this photograph of the snow-capped panorama unfolding near the China-India border.

The British ultra-runner speaks about how the Himalayan mountain range represents untapped potential for mountaineers, runners, and other athletes. The Himalayas are amazing for pioneers like Kieren ...