Snow banks help plants thrive in the mountains, providing water and nutrients for soil. But as climate change warms the ...

"Like the thermometer of the alpine ecosystem." Officials thrilled after once-in-a-lifetime encounter with extremely elusive creature: 'They didn't hide upon seeing us' first appeared on The Cool Down ...

High in the ghostly silence of the world’s tallest mountains moves a creature so rare, it almost feels like a myth. The snow ...

The male mountain lion, estimated to be 10 months old, was released June 17 by the California Department of Fish and Wildfire into a remote area of the Santa Ana Mountains in Orange County after ...