China is no stranger to massive civil engineering projects, but its latest hydropower effort is impressively large, even by ...

Mountain regions around the world are heating up faster than the lands below them, triggering dramatic shifts in snow, rain, ...

The Pamir Mountains, known as the "Roof of the World," form a vast, high-altitude system at the crossroads of Central and ...

North America performed particularly well, with the United States accounting for nearly half of the top mountain ranges.

About 200 miles from Johannesburg, the Drakensberg region offers a breathtaking landscape of stark ridges and green valleys.

What will eventually be the largest wildlife crossing in the world is running behind schedule and over budget due to a host ...

Huang sees the AI industry as a “five-layer cake” requiring total industrial reinvention, with Nvidia’s chips a particularly ...

Calling all bookworms.

A veteran who lost both his legs became the first double amputee to reach the summit of the highest peaks on every continent ...

From continents with hundreds of protected landscapes to countries that have only recently launched formal park systems, these ten nations host the world’s most extensive collections of national parks ...

The gentle rhythm of the Brahmaputra River (known in Tibet as the Yarlung Tsangpo, the longest and largest river in Tibet) ...

"Highpointers" are people with a quirky goal: summiting the highest point in each of the 50 states, from Mr. McKinley in ...