Alaskans have been gathering in the tiny coastal town of Valdez to celebrate the art of climbing ice Alaska’s hardiest residents have gathered around the frozen waterfalls of Valdez—some of them up to ...

A high-density rain gauge observational network in Taiwan reveals that multiple precipitation peaks exist over the mountainous island during summer afternoon convection. This contrasts with previous ...

As climate change warms the Arctic, permafrost is thawing, and carbon trapped within the soil is moving into the atmosphere.

From lush green coverings to multi-hued exteriors, these landforms draw in visitors with their vivid topography.

Middlebury College Earth and Climate Sciences students experience the excitement of the geological and environmental sciences in interesting, dynamic, and fun settings in the Green Mountains and ...

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 ...

We want to hear from you: What should Alaska's highest mountain be named and why does it matter to you? Or maybe it doesn't matter to you. We'd still like to hear your thoughts on the subject.

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.

The two peaks lie deep beneath the Earth's surface. Earth's biggest mountains, more than 100 times taller than Mount Everest, have been discovered on the boundary between Africa and the Pacific ...

Iceland has introduced a big change to revolutionise customers' shopping experience by combining it with fitness. The supermarket chain has rolled out the world's first set of dumbbell shopping ...