China has a lot of Instagrammable destinations. There's the cloud-shrouded quartz-sandstone pillars in Zhangjiajie — better known as inspiration for the floating mountains in the film "Avatar." ...

The Tentative Lists of States Parties are published by the World Heritage Centre at its website and/or in working documents in order to ensure transparency, access to information and to facilitate ...

Under a rapidly warming climate, a critical management issue in semiarid forests of western North America is how to increase forest resilience to wildfire. We evaluated relationships between fuel ...

In a matter of weeks this summer, a small mountain once embedded in a vast glacier in southeastern Alaska became the region’s ...

Did you know that water covers almost 71% of the earth's surface ? The remaining 29% represents the area covered by land. Furthermore, over 96% of the water on earth is saline water in the oceans.

Architectural holiday homes can maximise a great mountain location, and it’s more affordable when you can share the cost. That’s what two sports-enthusiast families have done in the Rocky Mountains, ...

A minibus passes by the Danxia landform scenic area. Danxia, which means "rosy cloud", is a special landform formed from reddish sandstone that has been eroded over time into a series of mountains ...

Under the threat of climate change, mountain landscapes all over the world have the risk of becoming more hazardous to communities surrounding them, while their accelerated evolution may bring further ...