Himalayas

India's strides in research on the Arctic, Antarctica and the Himalayas may soon figure in school textbooks, with the Union Ministry of Earth Sciences reaching out to the NCERT to include the latest developments in its curriculum.

A Nepali guide died after summiting the world's fifth-highest mountain, officials in the Himalayan Republic said Thursday, in the first fatality of the spring climbing season.

At least 89 per cent of 2,431 glacial lakes in the Himalayas that were identified in 2016-17 have notably expanded since 1984, the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) said in a report today.

India is set to begin the world's largest general elections on Friday, held in terrain sweeping from the icy Himalayas to humid jungles, with nearly a billion people eligible to choose 543 members of the lower house of parliament.

A viral reel by a foreign vlogger about the so-called 'source' of Indian chai in the Himalayas has sparked a range of reactions on Instagram.

Lok Sabha elections 2024: In the picturesque Kumaon Himalaya hills of Uttarakhand, the Nainital-Udhamsingh Nagar Lok Sabha constituency holds a significant place in the state's political arena

A Class 12 student died on Thursday after allegedly falling off the balcony of her 18th-floor apartment in a housing complex in Noida Extension in a suspected case of accidental death, the police said.

About 90 per cent of the Himalayan Region will experience drought lasting over a year if global warming increases by 3 degrees Celsius, according to new research.

About 90 per cent of the Himalayan Region will experience drought lasting over a year if global warming increases by 3 degrees Celsius, according to new research.

NASA recently delighted its Instagram followers with a series of photos, including an image of the Himalayas, taken from space. "Earth: It's got range," the space agency wrote in its caption.

Scientists declared the Hindu Kush Himalaya region a biosphere on the brink of collapse and called for bold action and urgent finance to prevent nature loss in one of the most biodiverse areas on Earth at a key meeting of global biodiversity experts.

This process may lead to more earthquakes in North India, Northeast India and Tibet, as suggested by the researchers.

Winter in the Himalayas should mean blanketing snow, and for Gulmarg in Kashmir, one of the highest ski resorts in the world, that usually means thousands of tourists. This year, the deep powder once taken for granted is gone.

2023 was the warmest-on-record year and the warming El Nino event is likely to further fuel the heat in 2024.

This winter spectacle occurred in a high-altitude region in the Himalayas, where temperatures plummeted to a bone-chilling -24 °C.

India's strides in research on the Arctic, Antarctica and the Himalayas may soon figure in school textbooks, with the Union Ministry of Earth Sciences reaching out to the NCERT to include the latest developments in its curriculum.

A Nepali guide died after summiting the world's fifth-highest mountain, officials in the Himalayan Republic said Thursday, in the first fatality of the spring climbing season.

At least 89 per cent of 2,431 glacial lakes in the Himalayas that were identified in 2016-17 have notably expanded since 1984, the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) said in a report today.

India is set to begin the world's largest general elections on Friday, held in terrain sweeping from the icy Himalayas to humid jungles, with nearly a billion people eligible to choose 543 members of the lower house of parliament.

A viral reel by a foreign vlogger about the so-called 'source' of Indian chai in the Himalayas has sparked a range of reactions on Instagram.

Lok Sabha elections 2024: In the picturesque Kumaon Himalaya hills of Uttarakhand, the Nainital-Udhamsingh Nagar Lok Sabha constituency holds a significant place in the state's political arena

A Class 12 student died on Thursday after allegedly falling off the balcony of her 18th-floor apartment in a housing complex in Noida Extension in a suspected case of accidental death, the police said.

About 90 per cent of the Himalayan Region will experience drought lasting over a year if global warming increases by 3 degrees Celsius, according to new research.

About 90 per cent of the Himalayan Region will experience drought lasting over a year if global warming increases by 3 degrees Celsius, according to new research.

NASA recently delighted its Instagram followers with a series of photos, including an image of the Himalayas, taken from space. "Earth: It's got range," the space agency wrote in its caption.

Scientists declared the Hindu Kush Himalaya region a biosphere on the brink of collapse and called for bold action and urgent finance to prevent nature loss in one of the most biodiverse areas on Earth at a key meeting of global biodiversity experts.

This process may lead to more earthquakes in North India, Northeast India and Tibet, as suggested by the researchers.

Winter in the Himalayas should mean blanketing snow, and for Gulmarg in Kashmir, one of the highest ski resorts in the world, that usually means thousands of tourists. This year, the deep powder once taken for granted is gone.

2023 was the warmest-on-record year and the warming El Nino event is likely to further fuel the heat in 2024.

This winter spectacle occurred in a high-altitude region in the Himalayas, where temperatures plummeted to a bone-chilling -24 °C.