There is something quietly disorienting about stepping off a train in Interlaken and looking up. The valley walls seem almost ...

The Alps are the highest and most extensive mountain range system that lies in south-central Europe. This mountain range stretches approximately 750 miles (1,200 kilometres). It was formed millions of ...

In July, Lorenzo Pernigotti, a seasoned mountain climber who has summited over 100 peaks in the Alps, scaled Aiguilles du Diable—“devil’s horns” in English—a set of rock towers on one of 11 major high ...

Hydrogen gas formed by natural processes in the subsurface of mountain ranges could represent a promising source of clean energy. A new international study led by Unil and GFZ shows that erosion plays ...

Ashley Franzen has lived all over the world and currently resides in Switzerland with her family. She frequently travels through and around the Swiss Alps – she is very thankful for the country's ...

The European Alps are an iconic, crescent-shaped mountain range associated with images of wintry peaks and snow-covered villages. But new research confirms a worrying trend about the winter-sports ...

Few places in the world are so uniquely symbolic that their name evolves into an adjective. Yet, the Alps dominate our concept of mountain ranges and mountain culture to the point that the adjective ...

Deep under the Alps, engineers are constructing train lines to connect European countries — and create the world’s longest ...

The experience in Lyngen was substantial for so many reasons. I left feeling supported, inspired, and determined to continue ...

Jackson Ryan was CNET's science editor, and a multiple award-winning one at that. Earlier, he'd been a scientist, but he realized he wasn't very happy sitting at a lab bench all day. Science writing, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The peaks of the surrounding Alps are mimicked in the dramatic jagged shape of this artist residence an atelier in Castelrotto, ...