America has always stripped the land of its original, Indigenous names. It's had surprising climate implications.

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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Heavy rains and dangerous flooding struck the Southeast U.S. as much of the East endured a renewed round of harsh, soggy weather Saturday, with at least one fatality confirmed in ...

Picking up the camera in the late 19th century, clearness of vision, sharpness and luminosity define the pioneering mountain ...

Undersea mountains are key locations for predators—with 41 times more sharks than the open ocean, new research shows.

Although Hurricane Helene hit the High Country more than four months ago, many of its effects are still being felt, ...

Volunteers at a recent MountainTrue live staking event worked to provide future stabilization to the bank of a portion of the ...

Tom Pearson’s letter to the editor, 1/25/25, was written to challenge the ideas contained in Dr. Stefan Sommer’s “Spotlight ...

Vittoria Sella scaled many tall peaks, including Kangchenjunga and K2, and took some of the greatest photographs ever of the ...

Pakistan is a country blessed with a rich and diverse geography that spans from towering mountains to vast deserts and fertile plains The influence of these natural landscapes has not only shaped the ...

Iowa lawmakers have advanced a bill that would require Iowa schools to replace in educational materials any references to the Gulf of Mexico with “Gulf of America” and “Denali” with “Mount McKinley.” ...