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The Himalayan village of Samjung did not die in a day. Perched in a wind-carved valley in Nepal's Upper Mustang, more than 13 ...
It has stopped snowing in the Himalayas. As a result, the water supply two billion people is under threat. The mountain range reaches 2500km from Afghanistan in the west to Myanmar in the east ...
Perched in a wind-carved valley in Nepal’s Upper Mustang, more than 13,000 feet (3,962 meters) above sea level, the Buddhist ...
Myanmar, which is just south of the Himalayas, is a seismically active region and known for its big earthquakes, Ben van der Pluijm, a professor emeritus of geology at the University of Michigan ...
Perched in a wind-carved valley in Nepal ’s Upper Mustang, more than 4,000 meters (13,000 feet) above sea level, the Buddhist ...
Myanmar quake: Power of tectonic plates almost impossible to imagine until it's suddenly released An earthquake is extremely destructive if it occurs shallow in the Earth's crust and near ...
Now only 14% of Myanmar’s territory and 33% of its population, mostly in cities, are under stable junta control, according to the Special Advisory Council for Myanmar, a group of former UN experts.
The Himalayas and the Tibetan Plateau are the most prominent results of this collision, but the eastern side of the India Plate also meets the Eurasia Plate, in Myanmar.” ...
Snowfall in Asia's Hindu Kush-Himalayan mountain range has reached a 23-year low, threatening nearly two billion people dependent on snowmelt for water.
The Hindu Kush and Himalayan mountain regions — stretching from Afghanistan to Myanmar — hold more ice than anywhere else outside the Arctic and Antarctic.
But the lifeblood of Samjung – its water – began to vanish. Year after year, the snow-capped mountains that fed its springs ...
A changing climate The Hindu Kush and Himalayan mountain regions — stretching from Afghanistan to Myanmar — hold more ice than anywhere else outside the Arctic and Antarctic.