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The Guardian reporter Leyland Cecco visits an almost 100ft-tall snow mountain, one of six created in Toronto to store all the snow cleared from roads and…

Most mountains take tens of millions of years to form. Toronto’s newest mountain took just days.Towering atop the crowns of evergreens, it has no skeleton of…

Around the world, mountains are warming faster than surrounding lowlands, scientists warn. More intense heat is melting glaciers and diminishing snowfall, threatening a vital source of…

Dawn had just broken across the trail through the Pir Panjal mountains when Fatima Deader felt the first labour pains. She and her family had almost…

Out on a digital detox in the western US backcountry, scientist Fred Ramsdell was startled when his wife let out a yell. He feared she had…

AFL State of Origin to return next year, WA to host Victoria in PerthMike HytnerThe AFL’s marquee State of Origin fixture will return next year to…

‘It’s important work’ Back at the waste yard, business has died down for the day. Bamfo and her youngest children, Nkunim, 10, and Josephine, 6, are…

Key eventsShow key events onlyPlease turn on JavaScript to use this featureJess has messaged in to say “bonjour” from Megève where she watched the riders come…

Key eventsShow key events onlyPlease turn on JavaScript to use this feature108km to go: Green jersey leader Lorena Wiebes has a go at getting away, and…