Vegetation is expanding at high altitudes in the Himalayas, including in the Everest region, new research has shown. The researchers found plant life in areas where vegetation was not previously ...

even reaching so far as the foothills of the Himalayas. With large orange or yellow crown-like flowers, it is hard not to be ...

Nepal’s Himalayan forests, rich in biodiversity and home to numerous keystone species, are under threat. Overharvesting of wild plants and fungi, climate change, illegal trade, and inequitable supply ...

Himalayan rivers were in place before the mountains ... The entire region boasts a richness and variety of plants and wildlife that are perhaps unequalled in the world. Botanists have estimated ...

Explore how the women of Badiyakot, Uttarakhand are transforming their village through the cultivation of kutki, a medicinal ...

This article was originally published with the title “ The Ecology of the High Himalayas ” in Scientific American Magazine Vol. 205 No. 4 (October 1961), p. 68 doi:10.1038 ...

Himalayan balsam is considered an invasive non-native plant and is listed on Schedule 9 of the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981, meaning it is an offence to plant or cause it to grow in the wild.