KATHMANDU – Raging water disrupted life in Thame village—home to some of Nepal’s famed Sherpas—when a glacial lake in the ...

All these ecological zones are compressed within a short elevation span. The Himalayas—along with the related Tibetan Plateau—provide considerable ecosystem services and as the "third pole ...

A digital elevation map covering the planet from Peary ... pairs by the ASTER instrument — such as the one from the Bhutan Himalayas shown here with an image in natural colour obtained with ...

Avalanche risks in the Western Himalayas have increased due to climate change and human activities with 30-40 deaths annually due to such disasters, a study published by Springer Nature has revealed.

Impacts of the Himalayas’ topographic complexity on the moisture transport and precipitation across the Tibetan Plateau during summer, compared to the smooth estimated topography from coarse ...