The environment we live in is shaped by many factors. It is not just how we use the land, resources and energy that is provided to us, there may also be factors that are simply out of our control. In recent weeks, this has become painfully clear in the area near Kathmandu, Nepal. Two devastating earthquakes have taken place within only a short amount of time, leaving a trail of destruction. We know that these earthquakes are the result of India moving towards the Eurasian continent, but what is driving India to move so fast, ploughing though the Earth’s crust like a bulldozer? Just like India is butting heads with Eurasia in the Himalayas, scienstists seem to be butting heads over the Himalayas, with multiple hypotheses trying to explain the complicated plate tectonics in the area…
Want to know more? Read all about it in this article in the New York Times! 🙂
Sunset from 20,000 feet on Mount Ama Dablam, Nepal – photo by Suzanne Imber (taken from ImagGeo)