Mountains cover a quarter of the Earth's land surface and are home to about 12 percent of the global population. They are the sources of all the world's major rivers, affect regional weather patterns, ...

With climate change causing a water supply crisis in high mountain Asia, a panel of experts, including Don, gathered in summer 2024 to discuss the biophysical and human impacts of this crisis in an ...

THE fourth part of the sketch of the geography and geology of the Himalayas is entirely the work of Mr. H. H. Hayden, and is devoted to a review of the present state of our knowledge of the Himalayas.

For starters, North Carolina is broken up into three main sections -- the mountains, the Piedmont, and coast. Each of these ...

It’s not every day a new mountain is discovered. But then there’s the day you discover thousands of them. As you might suspect, it’s hard to hide thousand-meter-high mountains anywhere on Earth … ...

In the 10th century, an Arab geographer described the Caucasus region as a "mountain of tongues." The nickname has stuck to this day, likely because of how well it captures two of the area's main ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract The introduction of fish into high-elevation lakes can provide a geographic and demographic boost to their invasion of stream networks, ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. KING, N.C. — For artist Duncan Lewis, it’s a ...

Today’s batch of burning questions, my smart-aleck answers and the real deal: Question: What’s up with the Asheville weather? Specifically, what is it about the local geography that makes this area so ...