How were the Himalayan mountains shaped? Surprisingly, long before the collision between what is now India and Central Asia.

Most geologists believe the Himalayas’ immense height results from thickening of the Earth’s crust. However, a new study suggests the geology beneath the world’s tallest mountain range is much more ...

Astronauts onboard the International Space Station (ISS) shot these photographs of the Himalayas, the Tibetan Plateau, and the Indo-Gangetic plain. A team of researchers at the Stanford Doerr School ...

Matthew J. Kohn receives funding from the National Science Foundation and the Department of Energy. These minerals are found in metamorphic rocks – rocks transformed by heat, pressure or both. One of ...

We are delighted to introduce the special issue of Journal of Systematics and Evolution on the Himalayas. This issue features 11 cutting-edge studies that employ genomic approaches to explore this ...

Research from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Guwahati have developed a predictive framework to identify the locations where glacial lakes are likely to form in the Eastern Himalayan ...