A model suggests a massive uplift caused by a phenomenon called “river piracy” partly explains Everest’s impressive height ...

Model suggests a massive uplift partly explains the peak’s impressive height.

New Mexico hosts a staggeringly diverse range of national parks, preserves and monuments. The fifth-largest state in the US, ...

Torghatten, a striking granite mountain on Norway’s scenic Helgeland coast, is renowned for the massive hole that runs ...

Mount Everest is having a growth spurt, but it’s not the only mountain getting taller. The Rocky Mountain ranges we call home ...

The Sutter Buttes in California are the world's smallest mountain range, formed from the remains of ... was created by the erosion of exposed sedimentary rocks that sit on top of the volcanic ...

Mount Everest is 15-50 meters taller than usual and it looks like the highest mountain in the world is going to get even ...

Many mountains are part of mountain ranges, which are groups of mountains formed around the same time ... the main problem for Pen Y Fan is the erosion caused by heavy rainfall and the hundreds ...

A recent survey carried out by an environmental organization has revealed that a vast area of the Samanala forest range has been undergoing soil erosion. Representatives of the Samanala Kanda ...

The Kosi River in the Himalayas once captured part of a tributary: the Arun River. It set off a chain of geological events ...

Mount Everest is growing taller every year, and new research suggests that the merger of two rivers thousands of years ago ...

This newly formed river eroded a massive ... about 50 miles from Mount Everest. This erosion lightened the load on the Earth's crust beneath the mountain range, triggering a process known as ...