The mountains of Nepal are one of the most hazardous environments in the world, with frequent landslides caused by tectonic activity, extreme rainfall and infrastructure development. As a landlocked ...

Earth's climate has undergone dramatic changes over millions of years, with ice ages occurring in strong, predictable ...

It is made up of trenches—geological scars at the edges of the earth’s tectonic plates ... Surveys in the northern part show evidence of landslides, from the 2004 earthquake that triggered ...