Himalayan glaciers are melting rapidly, putting billions in danger
Climate change affects us all but not equally.
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These Nepalese climbers spent 47 days cleaning 2.2 tons of trash from Himalaya’s tallest peaks
Not even the world's tallest mountains are spared by our pollution.
Industrial revolution detected in Himalaya glacier
It is remarkable that more than a century before the world's highest peaks were scaled, humans were already affecting the ...
New research questioned key climate evolution theory
The breakdown of Himalayan rocks may not explain the cooling over the past 15 million years, despite what a key ...
Old pesticide pollutants are melting out of glaciers
Yet another consequence of climate change.
A parasite worth three times its weight in gold is disappearing — and with it hundreds of thousands of jobs
The gold rush for a unique Himalayan fungus seems to be running out.
Himalayan Sherpas owe their super-human high-altitude performance to a unique metabolism
Nepalese Sherpas use oxygen more efficiently than puny lowlanders.
Highest-living plant discovered more than 6km above sea level in the Himalayas
Hardy little things too.
Everest glaciers might be gone thanks to global warming, new study concludes
A new study shows once again that no place on Earth is safe from the effects of climate change. Even ...
Drones capture amazing climbing sights from the Karakoram mountain range
Spy drones have been used by the US government on a various occasion in Pakistan to gather intelligence from the ...
The Milky Way, as seen from the Himalaya mountains
This has to be one of the most stunning pictures I've ever come across. Milky Way ...
The Himalayas might be the best place in the world to harness solar power
We've become so accustomed to the imagery of huge stacks of solar panel ...
Mount Everest gets 3G coverage
The world's highest third generation (3G) mobile network meets the world's highest mountain, in what is a historic setting of ...
Everest clean up team goes up again
Everest is known as many things; first of all it's the highest point in Asia, and in the world. It's ...
The Sky Burial
First of all, it has to be said that this once common burial practice in Tibet is pretty hard to ...
The continents and their highest points
Continents are the large landmasses on Earth, delimitated by convention rather than geographical properties. Here we will refer to elevation ...
The 5 tallest mountains on Earth
A rundown of the five tallest mountains in the world.