Our understanding of Mars has come a long way since the Viking missions touched down in the 1970s. Since then, more than 18 ...

It’s about changes in weather and where it rains. The glaciers on Kilimanjaro are among the last in the equatorial region. They give scientists and policymakers important information.

Scientists have predicted glaciers would melt, or retreat, as temperatures warm in the tropics—those regions bordering the Earth’s equator. But the study’s analysis of rock samples adjacent to four ...

During an ice age, the polar regions are cold, there are large differences in temperature from the equator to the pole, and large, continental-size glaciers can cover enormous regions of the earth.

The white cap of Kilimanjaro has towered over the African plains for untold ages but its glaciers are under threat from climate change. “When the world first started taking climate change ...