Dust plumes from western India carry pathogens associated with respiratory, skin, and gastrointestinal diseases to the ...

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 Himalayas Mountain Range stretches across South and Central Asia, forming the highest and most extensive mountain system ...

BENGALURU, India — Glaciers are melting at unprecedented rates across the Hindu Kush Himalayan mountain range and could lose up to 80% of their volume this century if greenhouse gas emissions aren’t ...

Mount Everest, located in the Himalayan Mountain Range, is the tallest mountain in the world. It reaches an elevation of 29,032 feet. The mountain itself is nestled between Nepal and Tibet, in an ...

Experts say dwindling snowfall during winter will impact the lives and livelihoods of millions.

This winter, the western Himalayas look unfamiliar. Mountain slopes that are usually wrapped in thick layers of snow during December and January are largely bare, exposing rock and soil across ...

LADAKH, India (AP) — Carrying her 1-year-old son on her back, Tsering Dolma herds a dozen yaks into a stone-walled corral as evening approaches in the desolate mountains of India’s remote Ladakh ...