AvolcanoinsouthernJapaneruptedforthefirsttimein250yearsonThursday,spewingsteamandashhundredsofmetersintotheair,asauthoritieswarnedlocalsnottoapproachthemountain
A12-year-oldboyhasdiedafterfallingoffacliffneartheskiresortofAvoriazintheFrenchAlps.Theboyandhis10-year-oldbrother,whowereonaskiingholiday,wentdownamountainands
Britainhasanewtallestmountain.MtHope,whichissitedinthepartoftheAntarcticclaimedbytheUK,wasrecentlyre-measuredandfoundtotowerabovetheprevioustitleholder,MtJackso
Mount Sakurajima erupted early on July 26, belching out a massive column of smoke rising 5,000 meters in the air.
A Nepali sherpa led a nine-man team to the top of Mount Everest on Wednesday, becoming the first to scale the world's tallest peak from the Nepali side since a deadly earthquake in 2015 and a fatal avalanche the year before forced climbers to retreat.
Australian scientists have found evidence of an ancient mountain range that they believe sustained an explosion of life on Earth 600 million years ago.
The Islamic State (IS) militant group has taken part of a strategic mountain overlooking the predominantly Kurdish city of Kobane in northern Syria after intense battles with Kurdish militants, the oppositional Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported on Sunday.
Hundreds of thousands of Iraq's religious and ethnic minorities, faced with death threats and forced conversions, have begun their exodus from their regional homelands since Islamic State militants seized their towns and villages in northern Iraq early in June.
Firefighters on Friday are continuing their efforts to contain a mountain fire that has been raging for more than 30 hours in Dali, a mountain resort area in southwest China's Yunnan Province.
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