Glaciers support a unique community of plants, many of which are found nowhere else.

Pikas – small cousins of rabbits – live mainly in the mountainous US west. They've been called a climate change poster species, but they're more adaptable than many people think.

Earth's magnetic field locks information into lava as it cools into rock. Millions of years later, scientists can decipher this magnetic data to build geologic timelines and maps.

Without adequate information, we can’t prioritise efforts and funding to best protect our primate relatives.

The success rate for climbers reaching the summit of Mount Everest has doubled in the past 30 years while the death rate has hovered unchanged at around 1%.

Before reaching summits became part of the new 'sublime' in the late 18th century, people didn't climb mountains.

The man who explained the greenhouse effect was accidentally killed by his wife.

A leading hypothesis about Earth's long-term climate centers on Himalayan rock weathering. A new study calls it into question.

Mountains are a big part of why life on Earth is so richly varied, but why is that? New research digs into what's behind biodiversity mountains support.