Since Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay conquered Everest/Chomolungma in 1953, commercial mass mountaineering has put unsustainable pressure on unique environments and communities.
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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?
Melting ice caps, burning forests – the climate disaster future is increasingly the present.
Mean annual air temperature on Everest is –13°C at 7,000 metres elevation, and yet the ice in its highest glacier is only –3.3°C.
A new exhibition captures the moment when Germany started to rebuild her national pride, in the Himalayan mountains.
For decades, China and India have clashed over their disputed Himalayan border. This clash is also playing out via a development boom that threatens the health of one of the world’s biggest river catchments.
Meet the first team trying to understand the secrets of Mount Everest’s glaciers.
Top contributors
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PhD Researcher, Aberystwyth University
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Redmond Barry Distinguished Professor Emeritus, The University of Melbourne
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Professor in Earth Sciences, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, and Emeritus Professor of Mineral Physics, University of Cambridge
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Professor of Geology and Petroleum Geology, University of Aberdeen
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Professor of Ocean Exploration and Science Communication, University of Southampton
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Senior Lecturer in Zoology, Bangor University
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Acting Director, Griffith Asia Institute, Griffith University
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Principal Lecturer in Psychology, University of Brighton
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Assistant Professor, School of Earth and Ocean Sciences, University of Victoria
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Professor, Geodynamics Unit, Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research
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Himalayan geologist, Lancaster University
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Researcher in International Relations and Politics, Development Studies and Borders, Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati
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Principal Lecturer/Research & Innovation Lead, Sheffield Hallam University
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Lecturer in Climate Science, Loughborough University
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Professor of Earth Sciences, University of Oxford
