The Kosi River in the Himalayas once captured part of a tributary: the Arun River. It set off a chain of geological events ...

A recent study suggests that Mount Everest's height may be increasing due to the erosion of the Arun River, located near the ...

The Himalayas and the Tibetan Plateau are the highest expanse of land on the planet, with the plateau generally being 13,000 ...

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Mount Everest is around 15 to 50 metres taller than it would otherwise be because of a river that is pushing it up, research ...

Mount Everest has been the tallest mountain in the world, likely for millions of years, but a groundbreaking study has uncovered a surprising reason why it's getting even taller.

Erosion from a river network about 75km from the mountain is carving away a substantial gorge, causing it to rise up by as ...

Mount Everest has grown up to 164ft taller because of the combined forces of erosion and upward pressure from beneath Earth’s ...

Six low-intensity earthquakes rumbled beneath Mount Adams during September, according to the U.S. Geological Survey Cascades ...

A study published today in Nature Geoscience suggested a reason for part of this accelerated growth: that when two rivers below joined up around 90,000 years ago, they set in motion large-scale ...

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