According to the Guinness Book of World Records, as well as most English-speaking sources, the Nile is the world’s longest ...

As urban centers in mountainous regions grow, more people are driven to build on steeper slopes prone to slow-moving ...

Dozens of tourists have been injured after a bus carrying them back to their hotels from the famous Machu Picchu site in Peru ...

Our Earth’s circle of latitude passes through 11 countries: Indonesia (which has the longest cut), Ecuador, Colombia, Brazil, ...

A British tourist has died while skiing after an avalanche in the Andes. Andrea Marshall ... 7,178ft Cerro Lopez mountain following the avalanche just after 5pm local time on Wednesday.

The collapse in lithium prices has claimed its first major victim in Western Australia, with the world’s third-largest lithium company deciding to mothball its Mt Cattlin lithium mine.

This season, YETI Natural Selection Revelstoke will run with TWO full, live days of head-to-head competition from the dynamic terrain outside of Revelstoke Mountain Resort’s boundary in British ...

Boasting jaw-dropping sights—including Perito Moreno Glacier, Mount Fitz Roy, and Cueva de las Manos—Southern Patagonia attracts culture-hounds and nature-seekers alike. Sitting beneath the ...

A hiker was stranded near a drainage gully on Mount Shavano in Chaffee County, Colorado, amid freezing rain after being left behind by coworkers at a retreat. (Shelley Dennis/Dreamstime/TNS ...

The discovery of Mount Everest was linked to the Great Trigonometric Survey of India, which began in Bengaluru. The Science Gallery's Sci560 exhibit highlights this history and other scientific ...