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Photo of Hüfifirn, a medium-sized glacier in Central Switzerland.
Posted inEditors' Vox

Mountains Undergo Enhanced Impacts of Climate Change

by Nicholas Pepin, Carolina Adler, Sven Kotlarski and Elisa Palazzi 10 May 202211 May 2022

As climate change persists, amplified temperature increases in mountains and changes in precipitation will diminish snow and ice.

A dog sits next to a backpack on a dirt road in a desert landscape.
Posted inFeatures

Incredible Journeys on the Crown of the Continent

by Mary Caperton Morton 15 April 202215 April 2022

Living in Geologic Time: The making, breaking, and backpacking of North America’s Continental Divide.

Map of the central-eastern Nepal Himalaya showing the locations of more than 12,800 landslides over a 30-year period.
Posted inEditors' Highlights

History Matters When Gauging Hillslope Susceptibility to Failure

by Matthew Brain 24 March 202212 April 2022

Using susceptibility models to forecast the potential locations of landslides is a key tool in mitigating landslide hazard, but are existing approaches appropriate in dynamic mountainous settings?

Researchers installing the reference station in a glacier forefield at the foot of the Matterhorn
Posted inNews

Mountains Sway to the Seismic Song of Earth

by Richard J. Sima 1 February 202221 March 2022

The Matterhorn in the Swiss Alps is in constant motion, gently swaying back and forth about once every 2 seconds.

A river in southern Siberia flows between rocky banks toward mountains in the distance.
Posted inResearch Spotlights

High Mountain Rain Has Scientists Rethinking River Basics

by David Shultz 27 January 202227 January 2022

Rainfall varies with elevation, and such precipitation gradients can have profound and often counterintuitive effects on topography.

A glacier- and snow-covered high mountain peak with glacial lakes
Posted inFeatures

Adapting to Receding Glaciers in the Tropical Andes

by Tania V. Rojas, Duncan Quincey, Pedro Rau, Daniel Horna-Muñoz and Jorge D. Abad 8 October 20216 May 2022

Integrated approaches are needed to understand and respond to changes in tropical mountain ecosystems and communities brought about by receding glaciers and changes in land use.

Dense green pine trees form the foreground. Gray rocks forming low-relief hills are in the middle distance, dotted with green trees, with a hazy blue sky in the background.
Posted inResearch Spotlights

Extinct Style of Plate Tectonics Explains Early Earth’s Flat Mountains

by Rebecca Dzombak 7 October 202117 November 2021

The geologic record suggests that despite Earth’s hot, thin crust during the Proterozoic, mountains were still able to form thanks to an extinct style of crustal deformation.

Runoff from Aneto Glacier in the Pyrenees mountains in September 2020
Posted inResearch Spotlights

Pyrenees Glaciers Are Rapidly Disappearing

by Joshua Learn 4 October 202128 March 2022

Three of the remaining glaciers in the Pyrenees mountain range stopped flowing in the past decade.

SAIL site in Gothic, Colo..
Posted inNews

Collaboration in the Rockies Aims to Model Mountain Watersheds Worldwide

by Saima Sidik 21 September 202121 March 2022

As Earth’s climate changes at an unprecedented rate, the Surface Atmosphere Integrated Field Laboratory is studying precipitation on an unprecedented scale.

Research scientists pose in the Himalayas with a GNSS station.
Posted inFeatures

Kristel Chanard: Trekking and Tracking Mountains

by Kate Wheeling 24 August 202121 March 2022

Researcher has the “coolest job” studying solid Earth and climate.

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