French mountaineers Maurice Herzog and Louis Lachenal achieved what no climber had done before: summit an 8,000m peak.

Summer came in with a rush. On June 1 the thermometer took an upward leap, bringing prostrations and in four or five cases, death, in the cities, and in the country, more or less discomfort. A week ...

Swiss authorities evacuated the town of Blatten days before the Birch glacier collapsed, but the resources that allowed them ...

Overuse and climate change are rapidly depleting groundwater throughout the region, but aquifers are not part of the ...

The small body of water is a spring-skiing draw at Arapahoe Basin, Colorado.