We take you inside Mountain Pass, the only rare earth mine in the United States. In spring 1949, three prospectors armed with Geiger counters set out to hunt for treasure in the arid mountains of ...

Antje Burke, Biodiversity Patterns in Arid, Variable Environments: A Case Study of Namibian Inselberg and Mountain Floras, Mountain Research and Development, Vol. 25, No. 3 (Aug., 2005), pp. 228-234 ...

Between 15,000 and 8,000 years ago, the Earth experienced significant climatic changes, including the rapid retreat of ice sheets and rising sea levels, during the Glacial–Holocene transition.

Researchers traced transition of ice crystals into snowflakes Date: January 24, 2018 ... Throughout the Western U.S. and in other semi-arid mountain regions across the globe, ...