Mount Denali, North America's highest mountain, is a beautiful sight. While beautiful, though, scientists have long wondered exactly how this mountain came to be. Now, new research has finally ...

How to plan a visit to Cumberland Gap National Historic Park in any season. Joshua Moore/Getty Images Cumberland Gap National Historical Park, located where Kentucky, Tennessee, and Virginia meet, is ...

A plant press used by researchers in the Hengduan Mountains Image courtesy of the Field Museum, Deren Eaton China’s Hengduan Mountain range boasts one of the most biodiverse plant communities in the ...

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A dead supercontinent may be to blame. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Earth, like so many of its human inhabitants, may have ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. David Bressan is a geologist who covers curiosities about Earth. "Mountains are an essential part of the landscape, but big ...

New research has tracked the evolution of a glacier lake dammed by a surge using satellite images, to help better understand its life cycle and the hazard it presents to nearby communities. During ...

NORTH WOODSTOCK, N.H. — The rain stopped just in time for sunset, and what a gloriously bizarre sunset it was. I had been listening to raindrops loudly drum at the windows of my 150-square-foot cabin ...