Most geologists believe the Himalayas’ immense height results from thickening of the Earth’s crust. However, a new study ...

Earth is speckled with mountains, from the slight Mount Wycheproof, rising 482 feet (147 meters) above sea level in Victoria, Australia, to the highest mountain on Earth, Mount Everest, standing ...

Researchers examined the plant life in the China's Hengduan Mountains, the Himalaya Mountains, and the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau. Using DNA to build family trees of species, they learned that the ...

Mountains, like rainforests, are hotbeds of biodiversity. But scientists aren't sure why. For years, they've thought that it might be related to the new environments that arise when mountains form -- ...

The world's longest mountain chain stretches along the entire west coast of South America, but scientists have been struggling to explain how it formed. Published Dec. 1 in Nature, research led by ...

The Appalachian Mountains often called the Appalachian or the Eastern Highlands are a vast mountain range stretching across eastern North America. The Appalachian range runs from the Canadian province ...

A CHAPTER on mountains will not be an inappropriate introduction to that part of the world’s history on which we are now entering, when the great inequalities of the earth’s surface began to make ...

Over the past 3,800 years, agro-pastoral activities have accelerated the erosion of alpine soils at a rate 4 to 10 times ...

The Canadian Rocky Mountains were formed when the North American continent was dragged westward during the closure of an ocean basin off the west coast and collided with a microcontinent more than 100 ...

Itching to shred the gnar and leave first tracks on the fresh pow-pow this winter? Translation: Excited to ski or snowboard on the freshly fallen powder this winter? As we wait for Opening Day on Vail ...

One of the big questions in biology is why certain plants and animals are found in some places and not others. Figuring out how species evolve and spread, and why some places are richer in species ...