New research suggests that virtually no new mountains were created during the Proterozoic era, halting the evolution of life on Earth for roughly a billion years.
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China and Nepal jointly announced a new official height for Mount Everest on Tuesday, ending a discrepancy between the two nations.
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Just days after a large phallus sculpture mysteriously disappeared from a Bavarian mountainside, a similar wooden carving has appeared in its place, German news agency dpa reported Thursday.
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Thirty-four scientists’ two-month expedition to Mount Everest last year produced four new research papers and several works of art, commentary and interdisciplinary reflection, all examining how climate change and pollution have impacted the tallest place on Earth.
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The Alps have long made Europe the world’s top skiing destination but the industry finds itself having to duck and weave through the daunting obstacles of the coronavirus pandemic and climate change.
Read moreThe Ninth Circuit upheld a ruling against conservationists in their suit challenging the government’s grazing of domestic sheep in Montana’s Centennial Mountains, finding the defendants adequately considered the effects the grazing will have on increasing conflicts between grizzly bears and humans.
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Tanzania’s government is hoping helicopters and planes will help put out a fire raging on Mt. Kilimanjaro, Africa’s tallest mountain at 19,443 feet.
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With a bumper litter of new kids, the recently introduced ibex population in the French Pyrenees is thriving more than a century after the native species of wild goats was wiped out in France.
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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.
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