Tag Archive: Himalayas

A study says a 115-km-wide section of the Main Himalayan Thrust beneath Uttarakhand is locked, indicating accumulated stress but not predicting an earthquake date.

Nepal Prime Minister Balendra Shah thanked India and China at the UN for flood aid and proposed a Himalayan climate resilience mechanism.

Sunita Narain expressed concern over the Yamuna’s condition and Nepal floods, calling for action on sewage, river flow, floodplains and Himalayan climate risks.

A glacier collapse in the Himalayan region triggered a chain of events behind Nepal’s devastating August 26 flood, reports said.

The catastrophic flash floods that struck Nepal and the Tibet border region on August 26 have once again exposed the growing vulnerability of the Himala...