Blue Ridge Conservancy (BRC) continues to preserve land for public access in Ashe County, and recently completed the purchase of 32 acres on the northern slope of Mount Jefferson that will be added to ...

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Nearly 4,000 acres of "critical" property in the Great Balsam Mountains along the Blue Ridge Parkway will be protected as forest and natural land under a new land conservation deal between a group ...

A nearly 6,000-year-old forest is once again seeing daylight after millennia hidden under ice in the Rocky Mountains. A team of scientists from Montana State University, the U.S. Geological ...

Two enormous continent-sized mountains 100 times taller than Everest are hidden thousands of kilometres beneath the Earth’s surface, according to new research that has left experts stunned.

A melting ice patch in the Rocky Mountains uncovered an ancient forest, and these trees have stories to tell about dynamic landscapes and climate change. Melting ice high up in the Rocky Mountains ...

You might think that explaining why the sky is blue would be kind of simple. But even a brief explanation of it requires a lot of science. The colors of everything you see are produced in different ...

The two peaks lie deep beneath the Earth's surface. Earth's biggest mountains, more than 100 times taller than Mount Everest, have been discovered on the boundary between Africa and the Pacific ...

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