In 1850, news of the California Gold Rush reached southern China, inspiring an exodus of 300,000 Chinese immigrants to “Gold Mountain.” Lesser known were the Chinese who came to the southern states to ...

A vast expanse of mountains in Asia will be among the worst hit by global climate change resulting in increased environmental hazards and insecurity to millions of people. According to the recently ...

Watch a short excerpt on music and dance in the Pamir Mountains from the 24-minute documentary film included in the CD/DVD for 'Music of Central Asia Vol. 5: The Badakhshan Ensemble: Song and Dance ...

Average temperatures in high altitude areas have risen twice as fast as the global average, causing more river runoff and sediment flux, and the trend could get worse, scientists find Rivers flowing ...

Mountain Research and Development, Vol. 38, No. 2 (May 2018), pp. 175-179 (5 pages) The Mountain Societies Research Institute (MSRI) operates at the interface of science and society in Central Asia.

Sonam Sherpa doing research on the Yala glacier in the Central Himalaya region of High Mountain Asia. The Yala glacier has shrunk in area by nearly 70% since the 1970s due to climate change. Glaciers ...

The glaciers of Central Asia’s Tien Shan mountain range have lost a quarter of their ice mass over the past five decades, largely because of increased melting linked to a rise in summer temperatures, ...

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TO THE congratulatory whirring of millions of unseen insects, enlivened by the rising Himalayan sun, Nepali voters turned out early on April 10th. In the villages of the Kathmandu valley, long queues ...

This program is part of Asia Society's Asia Electric series: eclectic and electrifying, these performances foreground innovators who combine electronica with elements of traditional practice from Asia ...