Extratropical cyclones (or low-pressure systems) traveling along the Kuroshio in East Asia most frequently occur in spring, ...

Bhutan sits between China and India, and its neighbors to the south accounted for more than 73% of arrivals in 2019, when a ...

The latest study warned of accumulating seismic strain along some fault segments in southwest China, which were behind the ...

reptiles and fish are currently in the process of being officially named by scientists. The Eastern Himalayas is certainly one of the last biological frontiers of Asia with many new discoveries ...

Glaciers in high-mountain Asia have lost significant mass over the past 40 years, at an accelerating rate. In 2023, record-breaking high temperatures and drier conditions in the eastern Himalayas ...

is a shy and elusive big cat found across the forests of the eastern Himalayas, northeast India and southeast Asia.” There ...

the Himalaya has not yet evolved plant and animal life uniquely adapted to its terrain; flora and fauna are instead an amalgam of forms native to India, Southeast Asia, the Mediterranean and Europe.

The Eastern Himalayas is known for its rich biodiversity, which includes thousands of different species: 10,000 plants, 977 birds, 300 mammals, 269 fresh water fish, 176 reptiles and 105 amphibians.

The Arctic Ocean is north of Asia, the Pacific Ocean is to the east and the Indian Ocean is to the south. The Himalayan mountain range is home to the highest mountain peak on earth, Mount Everest.

We boarded a domestic flight that whisked us to the far-eastern reaches of Nepal, near the border with India. From there, we embarked on a slow journey up into the Himalaya. Soon the smooth tarmac ...