An animation of the Plate Tectonics process of Convergent boundaries, also called Orogeny, that form certain mountains chains. Royalty-free licenses let you pay once to use copyrighted images and ...

The world's longest mountain chain stretches along the entire west coast of South America, but scientists have been struggling to explain how it formed. Published Dec. 1 in Nature, research led by ...

Researchers examined the plant life in the China's Hengduan Mountains, the Himalaya Mountains, and the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau. Using DNA to build family trees of species, they learned that the ...

Implications Across Mountain Systems In other regions, such as the European Alps and the Zagros Mountains, similar processes were reported. Nearly 50% of the Alps' crustal volume and up to 64% of the ...

Scientists have long been trying to understand how the Andes and other broad, high-elevation mountain ranges were formed. New research by Carmala Garzione, a professor of earth and environmental ...

Geologists have for the first time determined how coastal mountains in eastern Asia formed, resulting in significant changes to the continent’s climate more than 100 million years ago. Until now, ...

One of the big questions in biology is why certain plants and animals are found in some places and not others. Figuring out how species evolve and spread, and why some places are richer in species ...

4K video animation of foggy riverside and mountain landscape, with a magical pink environment and neon effect triangle floating over the river. Royalty-free licenses let you pay once to use ...

Mountainous regions are home to a breadth of biodiversity found in few other ecosystems on Earth, but where does it all come from? Scientists have traced back plant life in the mountains of China 30 ...

Aim: Complex topography in continental East Asia mirrors geological events such as formation of rivers and mountains, but to what extent these events drive diversification remains underexplored. We ...