Mountain tourism brings revenues to Nepal but leaves a mess behind. Local and international groups are offering new cleanup strategies.
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The Himalayas are a beautiful and fragile ecosystem that both humans and non-humans have relied upon for millennia. Protecting them will require careful conservation efforts.
Measuring the concentration of radioactive elements in a single, sand-size crystal reveals the growth of the Himalayan mountain range over time.
Alaska has at least 120 glacier-dammed lakes, and almost all have drained at least once since 1985, a new study shows. Small ones have been producing larger floods in recent years.
Climate change is causing increasingly severe weather – but it’s not just hazards at the Earth’s surface we should be concerned about.
Since Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay conquered Everest/Chomolungma in 1953, commercial mass mountaineering has put unsustainable pressure on unique environments and communities.
When we talk about landslides we need to talk about social justice.
Extreme weather will continue to disrupt global food systems.
Glaciers in North America, Europe and the Andes, in particular, have significantly less ice than people realized.
Mountains can’t be created without lubricant, and 2 billion years ago that lubricant was graphite produced by the carbon broken down from layers of dead plankton on the ocean floor.
The Su-re site has provided a historical connection between local Tibetans in the highlands with Nepali Sherpas in the Himalayan lowlands.
Earth’s magnetic field locks information into lava as it cools into rock. Millions of years later, scientists can decipher this magnetic data to build geologic timelines and maps.
A confrontation on the India-China border this week saw shots fired for the first time in 45 years.
During the COVID-19 crisis, some medical students at school in Pokhara, Nepal, went to rural Himalayan villages to teach about the virus. Others go home to challenge social inequities.
Nepal is angry that India is encroaching into the Kalpani region of the Himalayas, which Nepal claims as its own.
Relations between the two nuclear states were already tense before China and India skirmished in the Galwan River Valley. There is no simple path ahead for India’s leader.
Himalayan villages are growing food in the forests, a traditional model that can fight both land clearing and world hunger.
The 2019 season has been one of Mount Everest’s deadliest for climbers.
A climate scientist goes to work – at 8,500 metres.
A new report predicts that one-third of the ice in the Himalayas will melt, even if we contain global warming to 1.5C. So what does that mean for the flood-prone valleys below?
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Adjunct Professor of Earth Science, University of Silesia in Katowice
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Post Doctoral Research Associate at St. Edmund's College, University of Cambridge; British Antarctic Survey
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Professor of Biogeochemistry, University of Wollongong
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Professor, Geodynamics Unit, Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research
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