In the record-breaking Las Vegas heat this July, the fate of a West Coast college football conference was in the air. Inside one small conference room in the Bellagio, Boise State star running back ...

Mountainous and high-altitude regions are considered to be among the most fragile ecosystems on Earth. From melting glaciers to land erosion, these environments face mounting threats from climate ...

Mountain regions around the world are heating up faster than the lands below them, triggering dramatic shifts in snow, rain, and water supply that could affect over a billion people. A major global ...

This article was featured in One Great Story, New York’s reading recommendation newsletter. Sign up here to get it nightly. From the back of a bush plane at Mission Field, the Crazy Mountains were ...

The dense forests, twisting rivers and granite peaks of Northern Ireland’s Mourne Mountains have lived many lives and assumed many names. They’re Westeros in “Game of Thrones.” They’re “Krypton” in ...

Over the past few decades, housing booms and high earners have displaced once quiet locales known for their skiing, rapidly transforming mountain communities. These days, the places that have it ...

A new study led by University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh geologist Timothy Paulsen and University of Colorado Boulder thermochronologist Jeff Benowitz advances the understanding of the geologic history of ...