Las Vegas locals began a project in the 1990s to protect a geological marvel at the edge of town. They made educational signs ...

More and more, mountain snow in the Mount Everest region is vanishing into thin air. The snow line on Mount Everest's ...

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Yellowstone Caldera Chronicles is a weekly column written by scientists and collaborators of the Yellowstone Volcano Observatory. This week's contribution is from Cathy Whitlock, Regents Professor ...

A nearly 6,000-year-old forest is once again seeing daylight after millennia hidden under ice in the Rocky Mountains. A team of scientists from Montana State University, the U.S. Geological ...

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Unveiling Japan's geological history through volcanogenic massive sulfide deposits Researchers unveil key insights into Japan's geological history through Re--Os dating of volcanogenic massive ...

Historian Natalia Mehlman Petrzela explores life, love and death on Earth's second-tallest peak in the new season of Extreme. Straddling the border of Pakistan and China in the Karakoram mountain ...

Two enormous continent-sized mountains 100 times taller than Everest are hidden thousands of kilometres beneath the Earth’s surface, according to new research that has left experts stunned.

A melting ice patch in the Rocky Mountains uncovered an ancient forest, and these trees have stories to tell about dynamic landscapes and climate change. Melting ice high up in the Rocky Mountains ...