Over the past two decades, satellite-based planetary observations have recorded rapid mass loss of Patagonian glaciers, ...

Over the past two decades, satellite-based planetary observations have recorded rapid mass loss of Patagonian glaciers, contributing approximately 0.07 mm per year to global sea-level rise. A study ...

In his landmark 2015 encyclical “Praised Be,” Pope Francis cast care for the planet as an urgent and existential moral ...

Nepal today nominated two internationally celebrated climbers– Nima Rinji Sherpa and Purnima Shrestha - as UNDP Nepal’s first ...

Around 10,000 years ago, as the last Ice Age drew to a close, the drifting of the continent of North America, and spreading ...

The algae that grows on patches of ice in Antarctica alters the albedo — or the ice's reflectivity — enough to make the ...

These points of no return are specific moments when the planet has warmed so much that certain effects become irreversible.

The Atlantic Ocean has been widening for hundreds of millions of years, but its growth may have briefly gone into overdrive ...

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