The worst quake the Himalayan nation has so far witnessed was in 2015 during which a 7.8 magnitude earthquake killed more ...

An earthquake of 4.1 magnitude hit Western Nepal’s Jumla district on Wednesday. However, there was no report of any loss of ...

A world-renowned U.S. program for international disaster and crisis assistance can no longer deploy in the event of a major ...

“We are prone to overestimate how much we understand about the world and to underestimate the role of chance in events,” ...

The CCP’s religious and cultural repression on the Tibetan Plateau is also feeding an ecological crisis. The response from ...

A Hindu pilgrim stood anxiously next to a bus stand in Mustang, Nepal. “I’m going to burn my passport,” he told me. “I’m going to destroy all my documents and cross the border. I came ...

The planned construction by China of a massive hydroelectric dam on the Yarlung Zangbo river in Tibet has become a matter of ...

To hear critics describe it, President Donald Trump’s dismantling of the U.S. Agency for International Development is a ...

Ahead of the 50th anniversary of the first (and so far only) successful expedition to conquer Everest via its fiendishly ...

The other is the mid-Atlantic ridge. Luckily, the mid-Atlantic ridge is deep under the ocean, so earthquakes that occur there don't affect very many people. The exception isIceland, which is known ...

She said after the quakes, the lecture on metabolism switched to a discussion about earthquake preparedness and safety. People are much more important than kits. People will help each other when ...