Model suggests a massive uplift partly explains the peak’s impressive height.

The persistent process of erosion is powerful enough to cause the world’s most intimidating mountain range to rise slowly up ...

Earth's highest peak has gained as much as an extra 165 feet in elevation as the planet's crust adjusts due to erosion from a ...

Scientists explain what gave Everest its height advantage over its neighbors and contributes to making it grow taller (by ...

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According to a new study, a river roughly 46 miles (75 kilometers) from Everest was "captured" by another around 89,000 years ...

The Ganga and the Yamuna are vital to India’s spiritual, cultural, and ecological fabric and protecting and rejuvenating ...

The world’s tallest peak is still growing, scientists say, thanks in part to the merger of two nearby river systems tens of ...

Hydropower helps in reducing planet warming emissions from fossil fuels, but there is need to forecast better the impact of ...

The mega-dam could produce as much as three times the hydroelectric power of China's current largest dam, the Three Gorges, a ...

The geological process at work, they said, is called isostatic rebound. It involves the rise of land masses on Earth’s crust ...

Unless India has a plan to build climate-resilient urban infrastructure, the flooding of cities will become more intense in the future ...