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Beijing Winter Paralympics 2022: Fear for future of sports as climate change takes hold

The Paralympian, who rows at summer games and skis at the winter edition, says she is on the frontline of observing the effects of climate change in Norway.

India vs Sri Lanka: Vihari's ice meets Pant's fire as hosts search for new middle order balance

Test cricket today is about ice and fire, and in Vihari-Pant, India might just have an optimal concoction for the future.

It’s so cold at Beijing Olympic Games that faces have frozen!

As the Winter Games unfold in chilly temperatures, frost is forming on the faces of athletes, volunteers, police and camera operators who are competing and working outdoors. Take a look

Arctic's 'Last Ice Area' surprises scientists, shows early signs of melting

While most of the Arctic could be free of ice in the summer by mid-century, they thought the Last Ice Area won’t be ice-free until 2100.

Since 1960, Earth's forest cover has shrunk about 1m sq km while cropland, pastures have increased

Earth's skin is stretched across 510 million km2, 361 million km2 is water, about 15 million km2 is covered by ice with 134 million km2 is ice-free land.

Germany could lose glaciers sooner than expected, as early as in the next decade: Report

Located in Zugspitze and Berchtesgaden Alps, Germany's five glaciers have lost about two-thirds of their volume in the past decade.

Third of Antarctic ice shelf at risk of collapsing due to global warming

Larsen C, Shackleton, Pine Island and Wilkins ice shelves are at risk under four degrees Celsius of warming.

Climate change disrupts ocean mixing that helps store world's excess heat, CO2

Increasing temperature contrast between the density of the ocean layers makes mixing harder, so oxygen, heat and carbon arent able to penetrate deep seas.

Earth has lost 28 trillion tonnes of ice between the years 1994 and 2017: study

The rate of loss has risen from 0.8 trillion tonnes per year in the 1990s to 1.3 trillion tonnes per year by 2017.

From Bahamas, Brazil to America, Australia: NASA's 10 most captivating satellite images from 2020

NASA's mix of Earth-observing satellites and instruments on the ISS have captured some views of the Earth during the year 2020.