A cold front will bring a wintry mix of wind and showers across several states in southern Australia this weekend, along with ...

Mount Kita, located in the northern part of Japan's Southern Alps in Yamanashi prefecture, is the second-tallest peak in Japan, after Mount Fuji. Mount Fuji is arguably the most well-known ...

Happy Place: Mountains bring a seasoned traveler a sense of peace, especially the Southern Alps of New Zealand.

Aoraki/Mt Cook. Scientists are trekking into the central Southern Alps to unlock the secrets of what remains one of the least understood fault systems in the country. Photo / Air Safaris It’s ...

Ten years of GPS data taken from New Zealand's Southern Alps have helped scientists determine how fast this mountain range is rising.

The European Alps (Alps) and Southern Alps of New Zealand (Southern Alps) are both high mountain ranges formed by the collision of tectonic plates. The Alps resulted from collision of the African and ...

The story of disappearing ice in New Zealand's Southern Alps since 1977 has been very dramatic. In early 2007 we used the snowline survey data plus earlier topographic maps and a GPS survey of the ...

A third of the permanent snow and ice of New Zealand’s Southern Alps has now disappeared, according to our new research based on National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research aerial ...

A third of the permanent snow and ice of New Zealand’s Southern Alps has now disappeared, according to our new research based on National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research aerial ...