Rising mountains do more than reshape the landscape – they also drive evolutionary change, according to a new study. By simulating millions of years of tectonic uplift, researchers have uncovered a ...

A new study co-authored by researchers at Indiana University sheds light on how the forces that shape mountain ranges also influence the evolution of species. In the study, “Direct effects of mountain ...

At the top of the world, there is a sea—the remains of one, at least. The summit rocks of Mount Everest, the highest ...

These risks and the loss of freshwater supplies are some of the reasons the United Nations declared 2025 the International ...

The 700–1,300 feet-wide space rock deformed rocks more than six miles from the impact site when it hit 600 million years ago.

High in the Andes Mountains, glaciers have fed life for centuries. Their frozen stores of water support millions of people ...

NBC’s official description for this new episode 7 of The Americas season 1 reads like this, “The Andes, Earth’s longest ...

Africa’s remaining tropical glaciers are rapidly disappearing as greenhouse gas emissions drive global warming. In the ...

Recent studies suggest that the mountains may harbour vast reserves of naturally occurring hydrogen gas, potentially ...

Say Spain. What comes to mind would be colourful festivals and long winding footpaths such as the Camino de Santiago – Way of ...

New research suggests there could be massive reserves of naturally occurring hydrogen gas hiding away in the mountain ranges ...

Estimated to have been 700–1,300 feet across, the space rock slammed into what is today a mountain range in ... spend more time passing through the Earth's atmosphere, which helps them to ...