Do the Great Smoky Mountains affect how much snow falls in Knoxville?

Out west, the Rocky Mountains play a major role in winter weather across North America. But do the Smokies do the same for ...

Japanese photographer 'obsessed with mountains': Word from the Smokies

The southern portion of the Japanese Alps also stretches into Shizuoka prefecture. Today more than ten percent of the land in ...

Rain, not snow: Extraordinary warmth leaves mountains less snowy across the West

The snowpack this winter is smaller than average in California's Sierra Nevada as well as the Rocky Mountains. The lack of snow reflects record warmth.
CNN

Mountains are among the planet’s most beautiful places. They’re also becoming the deadliest

Jan Beutel was half-watching a live stream of Kleines Nesthorn, a mountain peak in the Swiss Alps, when he realized its cacophony of creaks and rumbles was getting louder. He dropped his work, turned ...
Live Science

Why Don't Mountains Grow Forever?

Imagine a world where mountains grow so high, they poke through the upper atmosphere and create a rocky maze for pilots to navigate. Maybe that world exists somewhere in the far reaches of the ...
OPB

Eastern Oregon’s Blue Mountains have big changes on the horizon, if the federal government can finalize them

Now, many are holding out hope that they can come up with a general agreement over logging, grazing, mining and conservation across nearly 5 million acres of this highly diverse ecoregion in Northeast ...