North America
A huge chunk of rock and ice slid down the flanks of Canada's Mount Steele on Oct. 11, at a dizzying speed — one estimate suggests a whopping 123 mph (nearly 200 km/h).
The aftermath of the gargantuan ...
The snowpack in California's Sierra Nevada mountains has reached its lowest point in the past 500 years — primarily the result of the region's dry winter, researchers report.
And the researchers don't expect normal snowpack levels to be replenished anytime soon. "We should be...
With an elevation of 16,066 feet (4,897 meters), Mount Vinson is the highest mountain in Antarctica. It is located on the southern part of the main ridge of the Sentinel Range of the Ellsworth Mountains.
Also called Vinson Massif, Mount Vinson is more than 750 miles (1,200...
It is easy to look at the news and be overwhelmed with the amount of problems going on right now. Everywhere you look, there’s escalations between countries, environmental issues, world hunger, human rights violations internationally and at home, food sustainability — the list can go...
Please see attached for an announcement for a Forestry Program Associate position with the American Carbon Registry.
The Program Associate is a...
Geophysicists have imaged the magma chambers that blew the lid off Mount St. Helens in its 1980 eruption.
Geoscientists have for the first time revealed the magma plumbing beneath Mount St. Helens, the most active volcano in the Pacific Northwest. The emerging...
t's almost that time of year again...AGU is just around the corner! After four days of meetings, talks and presentations, it'll be time to unwind. Come share your new ideas, contacts and enthusiasm with other mountain researchers at the ...
Rising temperatures are melting the Sierra Nevada snowpack
Making predictions about climate variability often means looking to the past to find trends. Now paleoclimate researchers from the University of Missouri have found clues in exposed bedrock alongside an Alabama highway that could help forecast climate variability. In their study, the...
High altitude soils vary so greatly that it is hopeless to generalize about the physical properties and nutrition in them. The soil of a mountain ridge top may be rocky, shallow, and alkaline, but the valleys below that ridge may be loamy, deep and acidic. Mountain gardeners will find...
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