The Himalayas Are Still Growing Every Year Mount Everest increases in height by about 4 millimeters each year due to tectonic plates constantly moving. The height is changing because the Indian ...

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 ...

Young Fold Mountain: The Himalayas are called the Young Fold Mountains because they formed recently in geological history and continue to rise every year. Their sharp peaks, deep valleys and rugged ...

Beneath the feet of dinosaurs 165 million years ago, a green fuzz of mossy vegetation was surviving the crush. As the Indian landmass began to slam into Asia 65 million years ago, eventually thrusting ...

John Parnell receives funding from NERC. While the formation of mountains is usually associated with the collision of tectonic plates causing huge slabs of rock to be thrust skywards, our study has ...

In the video, the snow-covered peaks gleam under the sunlight, winding through rugged valleys and deep shadows.