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Mountain lions are taking more risks after Woolsey fire - Earth.com
Oct 20, 2022 ... some may not know that the Los Angeles hills support one of the city's most captivating stars - the mountain lion.
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Glaciers in the Himalaya mountain range are melting much faster ...
Jun 23, 2023 ... glaciers in the Hindu Kush and Himalaya mountain range region have melted 65 percent faster in the 2010s than in the previous decade.
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Mountain lions are afraid of humans, flee when they hear voices ...
Jun 20, 2017 ... Mountain lions don't like encountering humans any more than humans like bumping into them on hiking trails, a new study found.
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Large groups limit social diversity among mountain gorillas - Earth ...
Jul 28, 2020 ... The social relationships experienced by individual gorillas were found to vary by age and sex. The females maintain a relatively consistent ...
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Thirsty mountain forests leave lower elevations with less water ...
Mar 8, 2022 ... The study was focused on the Blue Ridge Mountains, a forested mountain region in the eastern United States. The researchers found that when ...
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Windborne dust provides nutrients to mountain-top trees - Earth.com
Dec 8, 2017 ... Dust may seem like just a messy nuisance, but it actually provides vital nutrients to trees in the southern Sierra Nevada Mountains.
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Mountain building triggered a mass extinction event - Earth.com
Jun 18, 2024 ... The collision of tectonic plates caused mountain building and initiated events that led to a mass extinction known as the “Sinsk event.”
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Mountain streams are not as clean as previously thought - Earth.com
Dec 23, 2021 ... water quality in high-elevation streams has been negatively affected by sediment caused by deforestation, constructions, and agricultural ...
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Tourists taking selfies with mountain gorillas put them at risk of ...
Feb 16, 2021 ... Tourists taking selfies with mountain gorillas put them at risk of disease ... Tourists may be carelessly spreading COVID-19 to wild mountain ...
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Human land use changes affect performance of tropical mountain ...
Mar 29, 2019 ... Tropical mountains are becoming increasingly important places of refuge for plants and animals that perform vital functions such as carbon ...
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