In fact, for over 60 years, the mountain held the world record for the highest wind speed on Earth, reaching an astonishing 231 miles per hour in April 1934. It wasn't until 1996 that this record ...

Winding 1,387 miles through some of North America's most extreme environments, it was the most ambitious construction project since the Panama Canal and built to defend a continent.

The shift of subarctic forests and peatlands from a CO2-absorbing sponge to a net source of the gas means that these regions could help trigger accelerated global warming, the study warned.