Stretching like a colossal spine along western South America, the Andes stand as the world's longest mountain range. It spans ...

The world's longest mountain chain stretches along the entire west coast of South America, but scientists have been struggling to explain how it formed. Published Dec. 1 in Nature, research led by ...

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 ...

Mountainous regions are home to a breadth of biodiversity found in few other ecosystems on Earth, but where does it all come from? Scientists have traced back plant life in the mountains of China 30 ...

One of the big questions in biology is why certain plants and animals are found in some places and not others. Figuring out how species evolve and spread, and why some places are richer in species ...

New work from an international team of researchers improves our understanding of the geological activity that is thought to have formed the Rocky Mountains. New work from an international team of ...

Researchers examined the plant life in the China's Hengduan Mountains, the Himalaya Mountains, and the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau. Using DNA to build family trees of species, they learned that the ...