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During an expedition into mountains in Africa, researchers rediscovered a 'lost bird' - a yellow-crested helmetshrike - that had not been seen in decades.
Officials in California are relocating beavers (Castor canadensis) to help improve the state's mountain environment and waterways.
Scientists on a research vessel exploring the Galápagos Islands discovered two deep-sea coral reefs and two previously uncharted seamounts.
On May 18, 1980, Mount St. Helens erupted, killing 57 people. Debris from the 1980 eruption caused a landslide that destroyed a road in 2023.
Researchers found microbes, including those from humans, within the death zone of Mount Everest. This has implications for our future in space.
A new atlas shows that there is less ice in many of the world's mountain glaciers, which will have an impact on communities that rely on that water.
Researchers in the UK have found that neutron-star mountains are less than a millimeter tall. These dense, dead stars are nearly perfectly smooth spheres.
Italy’s Mount Etna has been erupting this week, spewing fountains of lava and ash into the sky.
A new study shows how methane snow accumulates on Pluto's mountain peaks. These snowcaps - first seen by New Horizons in 2015 - look a lot like ones on Earth, but form in a very alien environment.
Wildcat Mountain State Park is located on a ridge rising steeply above the Kickapoo River, east of La Crosse, Wisconsin....
Sugarloaf Mountain rises 690 feet (210 m) above the valley just east of the city of Heber Springs, northeast of...
Upper Beaver Meadows in Rocky Mountain National Park is just to the west of the visitor center inside the park...
Gile Mountain is located in Windsor County, Vermont, 7 miles (11 km) from Dartmouth College. The trail to the top...
Mount Teide is located on Tenerife in the Canary Islands off the northwest coast of Africa. Mount Teide is the...
Galicica is a mountain situated across the border between North Macedonia and Albania. There is a national park on the...
Hehuan Mountain (also called Joint-Joy Mountain) in Central Taiwan is situated atop a 11,207-feet (3,416 m) peak, at the west of Taroko...
Diamorpha on a Georgia mountaintop
A USGS study identified plastic in more than 90% of rainwater samples taken from across Colorado.
Here's a reconstructed "perspective view" of the tallest mountain on Ceres, which in turn is the largest world in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. Earthly astronomers call the mountain Ahuna Mons.
Mount Ainos National Park is located on Kefalonia Island in the Ionian Sea. It is the only national park situated on...