The film explores the dynamic nature of Earth's crust, detailing how it has evolved over billions of years. Initially formed ...

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.

Not all mountains in the Yellowstone region are volcanic in origin. The Wind River Range, southeast of Yellowstone National ...

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 ...

The National Park Service and an Australian company are at odds over an old Mojave Desert gold mine, where the company is seeking to extract rare earth minerals.

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