In a study published in Science Advances on December 19, researchers from Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden (XTBG) of ...

The Santa Monica and San Gabriel mountains formed millions of years ago. Within both of them lies a fascinating world of rocks, gemstones, crystals and minerals. Here's how to start identifying them.

BERRYVILLE — Seventeen local and regional organizations have joined forces to fight an upscale hotel complex proposed for 147 acres just within the Clarke, Loudoun and Fauquier county boundaries.

Mountain West commissioner Gloria Nevarez would prefer everyone be happy. That wasn’t possible. Two football teams were going to feel slighted. It was a unique situation. No doubt about it. The ...

BIG COTTONWOOD CANYON — Over at Solitude Mountain Resort, the team is up early in the morning to make snow. It’s a months-long process because they start maintaining the snow-making machines in the ...

New research uses laboratory experiments to demonstrate that water is naturally created during the planet formation process. By squeezing and heating planetary analog materials between the tips of two ...

The Routt County Planning Department has officially accepted applications submitted by Discovery Land Co. for the Stagecoach Mountain Ranch development, launching a formal review period for the ...

PESHAWAR, Pakistan, Aug 23 (Reuters) - A 7-km (4-mile) lake in northern Pakistan, created by a mountain mudslide, is threatening to burst and unleash potentially "catastrophic" floods downstream, ...

The Binchuan horned frog was found in a mountaintop village in China living near an artificial reservoir, according to a study. Zhang, Z., Liu, Y., Wu, Y., Xie, J ...

Hackaday has a long-running series on Mining and Refining, that tracks elements of interest on the human-made road from rocks to riches. What author Dan Maloney doesn’t address in that series is the ...

The U.S. Forest Service has started a 60-day public comment period as part of its effort, which dates back more than 15 years, to revise the long-term management plans for the three national forests ...