At the top of the world, there is a sea—the remains of one, at least. The summit rocks of Mount Everest, the highest ...

After unearthing a rare collection of highly prized Silk Road artefacts, a family in the Himalayas has opened a museum ...

Cradled by three different oceans and bordered by Europe and Africa, Asia has always been a major player on the world stage. And with unique wildlife and stunning landscapes throughout Asia’s vast ...

The diminishing ice mass poses an existential threat to the delicate balance of the region's ecosystems.Threat to Water ...

Traveling along the Tea Horse Road unlocks a land of teahouses, centuries-old monasteries, and epic valley views.

Currently, the Eastern Himalaya has the greatest risk. These maps compare landslide hazard indicator (LHI) changes in High Mountain Asia, showing anticipated risks over 2091 to 2100, compared to the ...

Back then, it was a regional list, conceived as an objective way to determine which mountains in the Indonesian archipelago would probably be worth attempting to hike at weekends. We developed the ...

Sanborn maps were ... sliding under Asia, but because it’s made of tougher stuff than the oceanic plate it didn’t just descend. The surface started to buckle, pushing the crust and crumples of ...

Such study should be expanded to other countries to further clarify species diversity of wood-inhabiting fungi around Central Asia. Central Asia is a biological crossroads at the most westerly part of ...

Chinese hydroelectric power plans in Tibet threaten to destabilize the Himalayan region’s ecology and politics.

MORGANTON — Foothills Conservancy of North Carolina (FCNC) announces the opening of a new public hiking trail on its South Mountains Headwaters Preserve property in Burke County. Named the Bob ...