Drone technology might change that. Scientists at the International Center for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD), a Nepal-based research institute, and colleagues at Utrecht University in the ...

A population of brown bears has been discovered in western Nepal, extending the species’ known geographical range and suggesting a potential “contact zone” between the Himalayan and Tibetan ...

"Scientists pinpoint unbroken section of Nepal fault line and show why Himalayas grow." ScienceDaily. ScienceDaily, 11 January 2016. <www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2016 / 01 / 160111135046.htm>.

Researchers from Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego have accurately mapped out the movement of the devastating 7.8-magnitude Nepal earthquake that killed over 9,000 and injured over ...

Research into the flora and fauna of Nepal’s Trans-Himalayan region, home to iconic species such as snow leopards and wild yaks, has been limited compared to the hills and the plains where ...

Conditions in the Himalayas can be cruel. But trekkers dying in snowstorms is almost unheard of. The Annapurna region of the Himalayas in Nepal is extremely popular with hikers.

A study published in the journal Nature Geoscience shows that a kink in the regional fault line below Nepal explains why the highest mountains in the Himalayas are seen to grow between earthquakes ...