For centuries, a peak in the Ural Mountains of Siberia has been known to the indigenous Mansi people as Kholat Syakhl, or the “Mountain of Doom.” Its extreme, isolated, and hostile climate ...

A new study led by University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh geologist Timothy Paulsen and University of Colorado Boulder ...

In this region, there are no obvious signs of faults, contorted landscapes, or underwater mountains ... plate to peel away. Scientists believe tectonic peeling may be common under thick ...

It represents the easternmost spread of a horse population native to the Ural Mountains, one that extended across the Arctic and entered North America as sea levels dropped and a landmass ...

The findings may signify a much more dynamic Antarctic landscape history than previously recognized, including added support ...

A team of 57 international researchers—including 18 Indigenous scientists from the Lakota, sqilxʷ (suknaqin/Okanagan Nation), Blackfoot, Dene’ (Athabascan) and Iñupiaq Nations—reveal that ...

Legendary Russian ballet dancer and choreographer Yuri Grigorovich has died aged 98. Born in the Soviet city of Leningrad to a ballet family, Grigorovich’s career – as a dancer, then ...

This hidden topography is a dramatic secret that hints at the continent’s dynamic past. The Transantarctic Mountains, which ...

It is formed in subduction zones on the edges of continental plates that provide high pressure but relatively low temperature. The primary source for jewelry grade jadeite is Myanmar, which ...

Many of the world’s best specimens are mined in the Ural Mountains of Russia. In Arizona, several sites produce gem garnets including pyrope. These include the Four Corners area in northeastern ...