The Continental Collision That Started It All The collision between India and Eurasia began roughly 50 to 55 million years ...

Earth's crust once formed a dense "root" supporting Colombia's northern Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta mountains, but new research suggests this prop sank into the mantle millions of years ago. When you ...

Since Edmund Hilary and Tenzing Norgay first reached the summit of Mount Everest in 1953, conquering the world's highest peak ...

Jan Beutel was half-watching a live stream of Kleines Nesthorn, a mountain peak in the Swiss Alps, when he realized its cacophony of creaks and rumbles was getting louder. He dropped his work, turned ...

Here’s the deal – by one 2025 estimate, the number of undocumented species on Earth stands at 7.5 million. At the time that ...

This astronaut photo, captured in 2023, shows a wall of haze trapped by a mountain range in Pakistan. The low angle of the photo provides a unique perspective of the clouds pressed up against the ...

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For billions of years, Earth's continents have remained remarkably stable, forming the foundation for mountains, ecosystems ...

Rockström is a research professor in earth system science at University Potsdam, the director of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, and co-founder of the Planetary Guardians. The ...