Over 350 new species including the world's smallest deer, a "flying frog" and a 100-million-year old gecko have been discovered in the Eastern Himalayas, a biological treasure trove now threatened by ...

Earth's climate interacts with so called surface processes -- such as landslides or river erosion -- and tectonics to shape the landscape that we see. In some regions, the sheer force of these ...

Soaring, snow-capped peaks and ridges of the eastern Himalaya Mountains create an irregular white-on-red patchwork between major rivers in southwestern China. The Himalaya are made up of three ...

BEIJING -- Chinese scientists have uncovered the key mechanism behind seismic activities in the eastern Himalayas, providing new insights into both the seismic risks and the uplift process of this ...

THE plucky authoress of this handsome work makes no pretensions to give any scientific account of that portion of the Himalayas into which she penetrated; this, however, is the less to be regretted as ...

There's a dwarf snakehead fish that lives in the Eastern Himalayas, and it walks upon the earth. The Channa andrao snakehead, which breathes atmospheric air and can live on land for four days at a ...

Agricultural lands in the eastern Himalayas (left) lack the protection that dense forests provided from temperature swings caused by the sun and wind. Because the eastern Himalayas exhibit more stable ...

New research reveals that airborne pathogens are reaching the hills of the Eastern Himalayas. These germs are linked to respiratory and skin diseases. On Wednesday, the Ministry of Science & ...

According to a new report released on World Habitat Day, scientists working with a variety of research institutions and organizations discovered more than 200 new species in the Eastern Himalayas in ...