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The United States Geological Survey has a vast collection of satellite images capturing breathtaking geological features of our planet. As a geologist, I’ve picked eight of the most fascinating.
The world’s biggest cycling race is a great way to teach people about geology – and test our own ideas.
Glaciers in North America, Europe and the Andes, in particular, have significantly less ice than people realized.
Why we are predicting the mountains of the far future, and what it can tell us about the world today.
Extended periods of rain are most likely found in locations where mountains are near oceans.
Mountains can’t be created without lubricant, and 2 billion years ago that lubricant was graphite produced by the carbon broken down from layers of dead plankton on the ocean floor.
Mountain ecosystems are not as pristine as we may think – and climate change could trigger devastating transformations that will affect us all.
As the risk of fires rises in areas once considered too wet to burn, it creates hazards for mountain communities and for downstream water supplies.
Not all forests respond to hotter and drier conditions in the same way.
Dams built in an earlier age are suddenly vulnerable as the climate shifts.
The area’s iconic national parks are home to grizzlies, elk and mountain snowfall that feeds some of the country’s most important rivers. A new report show the changes underway as temperatures rise.
Scientists studied charcoal layers in the sediment of lake beds across the Rockies to track fires over time. They found increasing fire activity as the climate warmed.
As the risk of fires rises in areas once considered too wet to burn, it creates hazards for mountain communities and for downstream water supplies.
Everest didn’t become the highest mountain overnight. This process was excruciatingly slow; a result of complex interactions between the solid earth, the atmosphere and the biosphere.
Glaciers support a unique community of plants, many of which are found nowhere else.
We think of mountains as remote and little affected by human activity. Unfortunately, the negative impacts of what we do has important implications for nature, wildlife and human society.
Pikas – small cousins of rabbits – live mainly in the mountainous US west. They’ve been called a climate change poster species, but they’re more adaptable than many people think.
The parable of the dragons underlines the need to apprehend glacier disappearance in a transdisciplinary way, to create a dialogue between the physical, ecological and philosophical sciences.
Early humans called Denisovans lived in a remote mountain cave between 100,000 and 60,000 years ago, and possibly longer still, raising intriguing questions about their relationship to modern humans.
Top contributors
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Associate Professor of Civil Engineering, Boise State University
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Postdoctoral Researcher in Environmental Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
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Professor of Engineering, University of California, Merced
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Professor of Paleoclimatology and Paleoecology, University of Wyoming
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Professor of Fire Ecology, University of Montana
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Postdoctoral Associate in Ecology, University of Colorado Boulder
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Directeur de recherche CNRS, Expert for Conservation Biology, Axa Chair for Functional Mountain Ecology at the École Nationale Supérieure Agronomique de Toulouse, Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS)
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Associate Professor of Environmental Management, University of Waterloo
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Chair in Global Tectonics and Paleogeography, Utrecht University
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Alan Collins is a Friend of The Conversation.
Professor of Geology, University of Adelaide
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Professor of Greek, University of St Andrews
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Senior Lecturer Environmental Management, Australian National University
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Écologue, Institut de recherche pour le développement (IRD)
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Honorary Fellow in Structural Geology and Tectonics, The University of Melbourne
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Emeritus Professor, Griffith University
