Google today released a new application designed to get kids to explore the world using maps and 3D imagery. The new app, which the company describes as “an experiment,” takes advantage of Google Maps ...

New Delhi: Himalayas have been placed under the ‘highest-risk danger zone’ by the Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS) as it unveiled a radically updated seismic zonation map, part of its Earthquake ...

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Want to run around the Himalayas as the legendary, fuzzy Yeti? You can in Google’s latest app, Verne: The Himalayas. Google’s Creative Labs is utilizing the vast collection of 3D imagery from Google ...

If you enjoy checking out the Himalayas and catching a glimpse of Mt. Everest on Google Street View, then you will be pleased to learn that Google is kicking things up a notch. It has launched a fun ...

For centuries the Himalaya have served as a geographical transition zone between different ecosystems and different ethnic groups of people situated between the lowlands of the Indo-Gangetic plains ...

Michael Paul Searle is Professor of Earth Sciences at Oxford University. Speaking with Srijana Mitra Das at Times Evoke , he talks about mountains, maps — and when the twain meet: What is the core of ...