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A river is pushing up the top of Everest

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Mount Everest is about 15 to 50 meters taller than it would be otherwise, and continues to grow, due to uplift caused by erosion of nearby river gorges, UCL researchers say. found out in a new study by. The study, published in Nature Geoscience, found that a significant canyon has been carved out by erosion from…