With a months-long paid leave from work, Rahel Mwitula Williams decided to do something she had always wanted to – climb ...

Iraq is sinking. Or, to be exact, the region surrounding the Zagros Mountains in the country’s north is. A team of ...

The Zagros Mountains, stretching over 1,500 kilometers from eastern Turkey to southeastern Iran towards the Gulf of Oman, are ...

This type of turbulence is generally caused when strong winds hit a mountain range (mostly perpendicular) and their flow is ...

The ocean plate was once the seafloor of Neotethys — an ocean that formed when the supercontinent Pangaea broke up into a ...

Credit: available under Creative Commons 4.0 license from Solid Earth and edited by Renas Koshnaw A research team is investigating the influence of the Zagros Mountains on the bending of Earth’s ...

This structural shift is affecting sediment accumulation and seismic activity in the Zagros Mountains region, impacting geological stability, natural resources, and earthquake risks. Researchers ...

Researchers at the University of Göttingen discovered that the Neotethys oceanic plate beneath the Arabian and Eurasian continents is fracturing horizontally. This structural shift is affecting ...

Deep beneath Iraq, a long-lost oceanic plate is breaking apart, causing shifts that stretch from southeastern Turkey to ...

An international research team led by the University of Göttingen has investigated the influence of the forces exerted by the Zagros Mountains in the Kurdistan region of Iraq on how much the surface ...