A new study says that mountain ranges could hold vast reserves of natural hydrogen. Scientists at the GFZ Helmholtz Centre for Geosciences have discovered that hydrogen can be created through ...

A new study co-authored by researchers at Indiana University sheds light on how the forces that shape mountain ranges also ...

Some mountain ranges are formed when two sections of the Earth’s outer surface, called tectonic plates, push against each other and the pressure forces the ground up. Not all mountains are ...

Mountains are areas of land that are much higher than the land surrounding them. They are higher and usually steeper than a hill and are generally over 600 metres high. They are often found ...

Rising mountains do more than reshape the landscape – they also drive evolutionary change, according to a new study. By simulating millions of years of tectonic uplift, researchers have uncovered a ...

mountain ranges make up about a fifth of the Earth's surface. With their ever-changing weather, ravaging winds and freezing temperatures, mountains provide very different environments and unique ...

The Earth's plates jostle about in fits and starts that are punctuated with earthquakes and volcanic eruptions. 4 min read There are a few handfuls of major plates and dozens of smaller, or minor ...

NBC’s official description for this new episode 7 of The Americas season 1 reads like this, “The Andes, Earth’s longest ...

It takes place in the Appalachian Mountains, one of the oldest mountain ranges on Earth. During mountaintop removal, diverse hardwood forests teeming with life — turtles, bats, wildflowers, snakes — ...

Not all mountains in the Yellowstone region are volcanic in origin. The Wind River Range, southeast of Yellowstone National Park, is an excellent example of an ancient pile of rocks ...

Also known as spreading boundary, a divergent boundary occurs where two plates move apart, allowing magma, or molten rock, to rise from the Earth's interior to fill in the gap. The two plates move ...