The Himalayas stand as Earth’s highest mountain range, possibly the highest ever. How did it form? Why is it so tall? You might think understanding big mountain ranges requires big measurements – ...

The Himalayas Mountain Range stretches across South and Central Asia, forming the highest and most extensive mountain system ...

How and when do mountains grow? It is tempting to think of mountain formation as something that takes place only extremely gradually, on timescales of tens of millions of years. One tectonic plate ...

For centuries, high mountain passes have acted as lifelines across the Himalayas, linking remote regions with the rest of the ...

A soaring mountain range as tall as the Himalayas once towered over the U.S. East Coast. Some 20 miles (32 kilometers) of rock have since transformed into sand and mud, exposing an outcrop of the most ...

The Aravalli Range is in the news following a recent Supreme Court-backed move to adopt a new, uniform definition of the Aravalli hills. This new, uniform definition states that a hill will be ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) These minerals are found in metamorphic rocks – rocks transformed by heat, pressure or ...