The warming climate creates a greater temperature gap between the surrounding air above Himalayan glaciers and the cooler air directly in contact with the ice masses’ surface, explained ...

A rare and extraordinary atmospheric phenomenon has been documented above the Himalayas, where over 100 red sprite lightning ...

Melting Himalayan glaciers pose serious dangers to humans, report finds 06:59. New Delhi — Glaciers in the Hindu Kush region of the Himalaya mountains are melting at the fastest rate ever and ...

The return of wolves to Nepal’s Himalayan region is putting greater pressure on populations of naur, or blue sheep — and by extension on snow leopards, whose main prey is naur.

There is a high risk of flash floods, landslides and glacial lake outburst floods in the Hindu Kush Himalaya (HKH) region this monsoon season due to forecasts of above-average rainfall, experts from a ...

Himalayan glaciers melting: The mass loss of lake-terminating glaciers in the greater Himalayas has been significantly underestimated from 2000 to 2020, due to the inability of satellites to see ...

Climate change, coupled with human disturbance, is pushing snow leopards further up the mountains and away from human contact, reveals a new study underscoring the importance of climate adaptive ...

The Himalayas, also known as the third pole, has the most glaciers outside the Arctic and Antarctica. The region is the source of 10 major rivers in Asia and delivers water to almost 2 billion people.

It has stopped snowing in the Himalayas. As a result, the water supply two billion people is under threat. The mountain range reaches 2500km from Afghanistan in the west to Myanmar in the east ...