Most geologists believe the Himalayas’ immense height results from thickening of the Earth’s crust. However, a new study ...

Earth is speckled with mountains, from the slight Mount Wycheproof, rising 482 feet (147 meters) above sea level in Victoria, Australia, to the highest mountain on Earth, Mount Everest, standing ...

Researchers examined the plant life in the China's Hengduan Mountains, the Himalaya Mountains, and the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau. Using DNA to build family trees of species, they learned that the ...

The world's longest mountain chain stretches along the entire west coast of South America, but scientists have been struggling to explain how it formed. Published Dec. 1 in Nature, research led by ...

A CHAPTER on mountains will not be an inappropriate introduction to that part of the world’s history on which we are now entering, when the great inequalities of the earth’s surface began to make ...

Where are the Appalachian Mountains? The Appalachian Mountains stretch across eastern North America, a result of ancient continental collisions making them among the oldest mountain ranges globally.

Mountains, like rainforests, are hotbeds of biodiversity. But scientists aren't sure why. For years, they've thought that it might be related to the new environments that arise when mountains form -- ...

The Canadian Rocky Mountains were formed when the North American continent was dragged westward during the closure of an ocean basin off the west coast and collided with a microcontinent more than 100 ...

One of the big questions in biology is why certain plants and animals are found in some places and not others. Figuring out how species evolve and spread, and why some places are richer in species ...