Mountains, including the Himalayas, are experiencing warming at a rate 50% faster than the global average since 1950, potentially impacting over a billion people.

As the Indian and Eurasian tectonic plates slowly collide, the Himalayan mountains continue to rise. However a new study suggests the Indian plate may be peeling apart, causing a slab tear. Scientists ...

Implications extend far beyond mountain communities. Over one billion people worldwide depend on mountain snow and glaciers ...

While a baby tahr’s leap on Table Mountain had people holding their breath, the Himalayan wild goat’s presence on the ...

Scientists warn accelerating climate change in mountain regions is increasing the risk of "devastating" floods and hazardous ...

A film festival in Dharamshala, where the Dalai Lama lives in exile, offered a full-circle moment for a film set in Toronto’s ...

In Nepal’s Upper Mustang, near the southern edge of the Tibetan Plateau, life unfolds in some of the thinnest air on Earth.

BEIJING (AP) — American mountaineer Anna Gutu and a Nepalese guide Mingmar Sherpa were confirmed Sunday dead after avalanches struck the slopes of a Tibetan mountain, while two others remained missing ...

An industrial construction site on the upper Mekong, with a Tibetan village on the opposite bank, 2011. Credit: Scott Ezell In 2004, I traveled a thousand miles in the eastern Tibetan plateau by local ...

BEIJING >> American mountaineer Anna Gutu and a Nepalese guide Mingmar Sherpa were confirmed Sunday dead after avalanches struck the slopes of a Tibetan mountain, while two others remained missing, ...

The Himalayan Monal, a jewel of the mountains, boasts iridescent plumage in males and camouflage in females, showcasing ...