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Nepal Mushroom Trek: Look Down Not Up - Rick Silber (9/6/2022) MAW member Rick Silber, executive director of International Mountain Trekking, Inc. (“IMT”), describes IMT's June mushroom trek in the Khumbu (Everest) regio...

The farmers are protecting Nepal's snow leopards.

'For us, snow leopards are deities': The farmers protecting Nepal's snow leopards In the Himalayas of Nepal, a simple solution is keeping both livestock and snow leopards safe.

In the Himalayan mountains, it’s not just climbers who race their way to the top. Trees are locked in a contest, as well.

The Himalayan tree landscape is shifting—and so are its ecosystems At high elevations, fir trees are outcompeting once-dominant birches amid warmer, drier conditions

"Too much pressure from extreme rainfall, an avalanche, or a landslide into the lake can burst these dams, triggering a devastating flood. Officials say that’s likely what happened when the Himalayas’ Lhonak Lake flooded towns in India in October 2023."

Glacial lake outburst floods in Alaska and the Himalayas show evolving hazards in a warming world Alaska has at least 120 glacier-dammed lakes, and almost all have drained at least once since 1985, a new study shows. Small ones have been producing larger floods in recent years.

A new study finds that the endangered red panda population in the eastern Himalayas needs better protection by conserving its core habitat and securing corridors.

Genes connect, geography separates red pandas Certain landscape features, such as connectivity, play an important role in the genetic flow and diversity of a species which, in turn, strengthen the species’ success in reproduction and long-term survival. However, geographical barriers such as rivers and mountains, amplified by human-induced ha...

A team of international scientists has found that ice loss in the region, home to the famous peaks of Everest and K2, is speeding up.

Himalayan glaciers on track to lose up to 75% of ice by 2100, report says Glaciers in Asia’s Hindu Kush Himalaya could lose up to 75% of their volume by century’s end due to global warming, causing both dangerous flooding and water shortages for the 240 million people who live in the mountainous region, according to a new report.

Climate change is posing a threat to more than 1.8 billion people living in the mountains and downstream.

Nature is changing rapidly in the Hindu Kush Himalaya | D+C - Development + Cooperation Glaciers in the Hindu Kush Himalaya region are melting, permafrost is thawing and water availability in river basins is becoming unpredictable, a landmark report confirms. This poses a threat to more than 1.8 billion people living in the mountains and downstream.

The Himalayas are a dramatic example of how mountains on Earth are formed. About 40-50 million years ago, the Indian plate began to crash into the Eurasian plate, and the Himalayan mountains shot up.
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Why can't mountains on Earth get much higher than the ones that are here now? If you've ever wondered why there are no mountains higher than Mount Everest, you can find the answer here. But there are mountains of completely different sizes elsewhere in the solar system.

A paper in Nature presents evidence for a giant rockslide that may have taken the peak off one of the Himalaya’s highest mountains during Medieval times. This abrupt, high-altitude erosion event may have reduced the height of the summit by several hundred meters. Read the paper: https://go.nature.com/46yUY45

"Scientists predict devastating consequences for water and food security, energy sources, ecosystems, and the lives and livelihoods of hundreds of millions of people across Asia, many of which will be beyond the limits of adaptation."

Landmark International Report: Current Emissions Path Threatens Two Billion People in Hindu Kush Himalayas New international assessment finds emissions and climate policy falls short in the high mountain regions of Asia, threatening billions of people and species in the area.

"As China and Nepal found, deciding exactly what you measure, and how you measure, is fundamental to establishing a mountain's height. For example, to agree upon how tall a mountain is, we must first agree on where the bottom is. But that's not as easy as it might sound."

How tall will Mount Everest get before it stops growing? Arching over 8,849 metres (29,032ft) into the sky, Everest is the world’s tallest mountain. But will it always be? 8,848.86