Mountains are the “most convincing” hotspots of climate change, he told CNN. When he’s focused on the science, he keeps his emotions at arm’s length. But as a father, and a mountaineer, it ...

The world’s glaciers lost ice at a rate of about 255 billion tons annually from 2000 to 2011, but that quickened to about 346 billion tons annually over the next decade, the study found.

If I was to climb a really tall mountain, like Mount Everest, the tallest mountain in the world, I might also need an oxygen mask. That’s because the higher you go the thinner the air becomes.

This month, a first-of-its-kind publication has gathered as many possible facts, studies, and stories about mountains into one volume: the Canadian Mountain Assessment (CMA), a work that's taken ...

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