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

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

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 ...

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

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

Mount Everest is having a growth spurt, but it’s not the only mountain getting taller. The Rocky Mountain ranges we call home ...

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

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

Mountains are in constant motion. That includes the world’s tallest peak, Mt. Everest, in the Himalayas. It’s added an extra 160 feet in the past 89,000 years, according to a new study. Adam Smith, a ...

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