Beneath the frozen wastes of the Arctic, a three-way geopolitical tug-of-war is taking place over which country owns a ridge of undersea mountains. The winner will change maps forever. One of the ...

The research team attempted to measure all the material that left and entered the St Elias Mountain range, on the Alaskan ... gulf and the Alaskan continental shelf. Sean Gulick, lead author ...

Mountains part of continental shelf? Preliminary tests on soil samples gathered by a Russian scientific expedition indicate that a vast mountain range under the Arctic Ocean is part of Russia’s ...

rising like the tops of books slumped sideways into an empty shelf. The difference is that these layers started off flat, not vertical. The Sawtooth Mountains lie entirely within the range of the ...

Handout The body of a British hiker missing in the mountains since Jan. 1 has been recovered after five months of searching, according to the BBC. On Saturday, May 31, emergency responders found ...