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 ...

Tibet may be tearing in two beneath the rising Himalayas, with pieces of the continental plate peeling off like the lid off a tin of fish, researchers have discovered. According to new research ...

A new geological study has uncovered striking evidence that the Indian Plate, the massive slab of Earth's crust driving the rise of the Himalayas, is tearing and warping deep beneath the mountain ...

India and China’s Brahmaputra dam race is fuelling an energy–data rivalry, turning the Himalayas into a flashpoint of Asia’s ...

Concern is increasing over the role of the Tibetan market in the trade of tiger and Asian leopard skins, with many animals hunted every year in the Himalayas to meet the market demand in Tibet. Lhasa ...

The geology of the Himalayas is a record of the most dramatic and visible creations of the immense mountain range formed by plate tectonic forces and sculpted by weathering and erosion. The Himalayas, ...

Please join us for the opening reception of Daniel Miller’s exhibition and talk on 'Searching for Grass and Water: Nomads of the Tibetan Plateau and Himalaya' in Norlin Library’s Underground West ...

With the help of a new scholar, the Center for Asian Studies is launching a program that looks to educate students about this politically fraught region The University of Colorado Boulder is one of ...

It was our rest day. We were at the village of Janglic on the side of a glacial valley, 3,000 m up in India’s western Himalayas. Tibet lay 50 km to the north. The road through the mountains had ended ...

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