Mountainous regions are home to a breadth of biodiversity found in few other ecosystems on Earth, but where does it all come from? Scientists have traced back plant life in the mountains of China 30 million years to its formation and the ensuing monsoons to find the answer.
Read moreWith humans sheltering indoors to escape the new coronavirus, mountain goats are taking advantage of the peace and space to roam in frisky clumps through the streets of Llandudno, a town in North Wales.
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Last Christmas, for the first time in its existence, a ski resort in the French Alpine town of Montclar could count neither on Mother Nature nor its artificial snow machines to produce enough of the white stuff to cover its pistes.
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Long before humans explored the world’s highest peaks of the Himalayas, new research released Monday reveals our pollution got there first.
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High-altitude areas of Mount Everest and across the Hindu Kush Himalayan regions are experiencing a surprising increase in vegetation and plant life, according to new research.
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A skeleton found by hikers this fall near California’s second-highest peak was identified Friday as a Japanese American artist who had left the Manzanar internment camp to paint in the mountains in the waning days of World War II.
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Protesters opposed to building a giant telescope on Hawaii’s tallest peak agreed Thursday to move a tent of elders that has blocked the mountain’s access road.
Read moreParents of the late Tyler Hilliard sued the Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity — Pi Epsilon Chapter at UC Riverside in superior court, claiming their son died after weeks of hazing and an “initiation hike” on Mount Rubidoux.
Read moreThe Western Watersheds Project sued the U.S. Forest Service in federal court, claiming it’s allowing Utah’s Monroe Mountain area to be devastated by scofflaw ranchers who “have made overtly clear they have guns to back up their threats, and they call for the arrest of USFS employees who attempt to exercise basic management and oversight on federal grazing allotments as required by law.”
Read moreSwiss police say two climbers have died in an accident on the upper reaches of the famed Matterhorn mountain.
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Thousands of protesters joined a swelling effort Wednesday to stop construction of a telescope they have long tried to keep off a mountain considered sacred to some Native Hawaiians, blocking a road to Hawaii’s highest peak and prompting the arrest of a group of elderly demonstrators.
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Hundreds of demonstrators are gathered at the base of Hawaii’s tallest mountain to protest the construction of a giant telescope on land that some Native Hawaiians consider sacred.
Read moreA Colorado climber died Monday shortly after getting to the top of Mount Everest and achieving his dream of scaling the highest peaks on each of the seven continents, his brother said Monday.
Read moreWilderness Watch claims in a federal complaint that the U.S. Forest Service authorized “the unprecedented use of chainsaws” in the Weminuche and South San Juan Wilderness Areas in the Rocky Mountains.
Read moreSherpa climber Kami Rita scaled Mount Everest on Wednesday for a 23rd time, breaking his own record for the most successful ascents of the world’s highest peak.
Read moreA team of American scientists flew to the Mount Everest region Wednesday to study how pollution has impacted the Himalayan mountains and glaciers that are melting due to global warming.
Read morePakistan’s military dispatched two helicopters Thursday despite closure of its airspace amid tensions with neighboring India to find a pair of climbers from Italy and Britain who went missing on a Himalayan peak, a mountaineering official said.
Read moreOne-third of Himalayan glaciers will melt by the end of the century due to climate change, threatening water sources for 1.9 billion people, even if current efforts to reduce climate change succeed, an assessment warns.
Read moreTwo survivors of deadly Tennessee wildfires that began in Great Smoky Mountains National Park have sued the federal government, claiming they lost loved ones and a home because of the negligence of park workers.
Read moreThe eruption of Indonesia’s Mount Sinabung that shot ash 3 miles high also blew away much of the mountain’s summit.
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