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Bogong moths are thought to help plants spread pollen and are also a key food source for the mountain pygmy possum, a critically endangered cave-dwelling marsupial.

From Barron's ● Oct. 2, 2026

The loss of glacier ice can also destabilise mountain slopes and increase the risk of landslides in some places - which can lead to flash flooding in extreme cases, as seen in Nepal in August.

From BBC ● Oct. 1, 2026

More often, his grunt work involves riding on the front to shield Pogacar from the wind, setting the pace on the hardest mountain stages, and emptying the tank until he can hardly turn the pedals.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 27, 2026

For this humble fishing village in Yemen, a tumbledown grouping of barely-there huts nestled between the water and an imposing mountain range, stands sentinel over one of the world’s most vital waterways.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 27, 2026

“It’s why Salzburg looked so shocked that night. The attack wasn’t one he planned. He had no idea the mountain was going to collapse around our ears.”

From "Glitch" by Laura Martin

On a more hopeful note, this may be the year for betting on a snowy winter in the mountains out West.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026

"They get up into the mountains and into these caves, where they make this beautiful tiling pattern," said Western Sydney University insect researcher Eleanor Drinkwater.

From Barron's ● Oct. 2, 2026

Los Angeles County uses a network of 27 spreading grounds, where artificial basins fill up when storms send torrents cascading down from the mountains into the San Fernando and San Gabriel valleys.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 26, 2026

Adolfina Kum believes communities "lose an important source of strength" when sacred mountains, forests or ancestral places are disturbed.

From BBC ● Sep. 25, 2026

Not just people, but animals and villages, and roads and kingdoms, even mountains.

From "Rump: The (Fairly) True Story of Rumpelstilskin" by Liesl Shurtliff