Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Himalayan rocks hold magnetic clues about their origins. Craig Robert Martin, CC BY-ND Breathing quickly in the thin mountain air, ...

Scientists may have just toppled a 100-year-old theory about what holds up the highest mountain range on Earth, new research shows. The Himalayan mountains formed in the collision between the Asian ...

The Himalayan Range includes some of the youngest and most spectacular mountains on Earth, but the rugged landscape that lends it the striking beauty for which it is known can also keep scientists ...

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 ...

A Call to Understand the Himalayas Dr. Amrik Singh Thakur In a plea for the Himalayas, it is crucial to recognize the ...

Scientists have been trying to make sense of out of what makes the earth move for centuries. The earthquake disaster in Nepal on April 25 brings attention to human frailty in the face of Mother Nature ...

A team of researchers from India and Japan have found water droplets trapped in mineral deposits in the Kumaon mountains in the Indian state of Uttarakhand that were likely left from an ancient ocean ...

Punjab Himalayas lie between Which Rivers? Explore the geographical region between the Indus and the Sutlej Rivers.

The Kumaon Himalayan mountain range with a view of flying migratory birds, as seen from Uttarakhand, India. (iStock) Robert Barnett is a professorial research associate at the University of London’s ...