The south summit of Kebnekaise mountain, the highest peak in Sweden, is iconic. Several thousand climb or hike to the top every year, Ninis Rosqvist, director of Tarfala Research Station, which ...

Scientists are just finished drilling Sweden's deepest hole, and they hope it will reveal secrets about how the Himalayas were formed. The long stretch of mountains running along Sweden and Norway ...

Governance collaborations between public and private partners are increasingly used to promote sustainable mountain development, yet information is limited on their nature and precise extent. This ...

Sweden’s tallest mountain has lost its title, and climate change is to blame, as the glacier covering its summit continues to shrink due to rising temperatures, scientists have confirmed. The ...

Mountain climbing is another one of those weird, unexpected climate change casualties. After weeks of intense heat that’s set Scandinavian forests ablaze, new research shows that the heat has also ...

Relict marginal moraines are commonly used landforms in palaeoglaciological reconstructions. In the Swedish mountains, a large number of relict marginal moraines of variable morphology and origin ...

Sweden's mountains are growing greener. At the border between woods and bare mountain, trees that require warm temperatures, such as oak, elm, maple, and black alder, have become established for the ...

Northern lights glow over skywatchers high in the Swedish mountains on Feb. 21, 2014 in this image from the video “Lights Over Lapland” by Chad Blakley. Northern lights glow over skywatchers high in ...