America has always stripped the land of its original, Indigenous names. It's had surprising climate implications.

Gnarled trunks and spindly offshoots both layer atop and are masked by Gaines' sequences, all viewed through sheets of ...

Thousands of climbers attempt to summit the roof of Africa each year. Here's what it's like to be one of them.

President Trump ordered the renaming of Denali and the Gulf of Mexico by executive order during his first hours in office.

Back then, it was a regional list, conceived as an objective way to determine which mountains in the Indonesian archipelago would probably be worth attempting to hike at weekends. We developed the ...

Oli France has completed the third leg of his Ultimate Seven Project – to travel the lowest and highest point on seven continents.

The GLIMS initiative has created a unique glacier inventory, storing information about the extent and rates of change of all the world's mountain glaciers and ice ... Blue outlined yellow areas on the ...

American tech giant Google has started calling the Gulf of Mexico the "Gulf of America" after an order by U.S. President ...

TORONTO - Canada’s main stock index closed down nearly 300 points while the loonie fell to its lowest level in more than two decades as Canadian exports to the United States face sweeping ...

The World Health Organization chief is asking global leaders to lean on Washington to reverse President Donald Trump’s decision to withdraw from the U.N. health agency.

Lake Natron is primarily located in Tanzania, but the 56km-long body of ... 7,650feet-tall Ol Doinyo Lengai - or 'Mountain of God' - volcano. Its pink hue is a result of a type of algae, called ...

With an Ontario election campaign underway, Liberal Leader Bonnie Crombie talks to Toronto Star political columnist Martin Regg Cohn at the Democracy Forum at Toronto Metropolitan University on ...