Grazing livestock and farming over the past 4000 years have rapidly accelerated the rate of soil loss in the Alps, ...

Over the last 3,800 years, agro-pastoral activities have accelerated alpine soil erosion at a pace four to 10 times faster ...

Rivers are Earth's arteries. Water, sediment and nutrients self-organize into diverse, dynamic channels as they journey from ...

The strange fate of a group of skiers in the Ural Mountains has generated endless speculation.

A meteorite that struck near Winslow, Arizona, about 56,000 years ago may have triggered a massive landslide in the Grand ...

Linguists believe Uralic languages may have originated from somewhere near the Ural Mountains, in modern-day Russia and Kazakhstan.

According to Azerbaijan’s Foreign Ministry, Russian law enforcement raided homes of Azerbaijani residents in the industrial city in Russia’s Ural Mountains on Friday.

Lake Tahoe mountains got a rare June snowstorm, surprising locals just after the summer solstice and dusting Palisades Tahoe with fresh snow.

Mountains at underground Fordo nuclear site damaged after US strikes, satellite photos analyzed by AP show (CORRECTS: A previous APNewsAlert erroneously reported the entryways had been damaged.

The first public satellite images of Iran's Fordow nuclear site offer a glimpse of the damage that US bunker buster bombs did to the facility following President Trump's surprise attack Saturday.

The Ural Mountains, long a source of valuable minerals and coal, form the barrier between Europe and Asia.