Several glaciologists now say the clump of ice clinging to the Sierra Nevada National Park in the Andes now is too small to be considered a glacier. While there is no global standard for the ...

Tioga Road, located in the Sierra Nevada, is one of California’s highest mountain passes and routes into the eastern side of ...

A "bomb cyclone" is forecast to intensify an atmospheric river and bring snow to the northern Sierra Nevada starting on ...

The Humboldt Glacier was somewhat of the last man standing in Venezuela. Located above 5,000m in the Sierra Nevada de Mérida range, La Corona kept company with five other glaciers. By 2011 ...

glaciers and biological diversity. Almost 95 percent of the park is designated wilderness. Yosemite is one of the largest and least fragmented habitats blocks in the Sierra Nevada. Its geology is ...