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A 15-member team, led by Colonel Ranveer Singh Jamwal, has decided to name the summit "Tsangyang Gyatso Peak" after the Dalai Lama. China has expressed displeasure after Indian mountaineers named ...

The sun has been in a very active phase in recent years. A busy series of northern lights activity will soon come to a peak as the sun reaches its solar maximum stage in the coming months.

The highest peak at Great Smoky Mountains National Park is officially reverting to its Cherokee name more than 150 years after a surveyor named it for a Confederate general. The US Board of ...

Daveynin via Flickr under CC BY 2.0 A 6,643-foot peak in Great Smoky Mountains National Park has been renamed “Kuwohi,” which means “mulberry place” in the Cherokee language. The Cherokee ...

ONE OF THE early uses of the word was by Lead Belly, who sang about the Scottsboro boys, nine young African-Americans in Scottsboro, Alabama, who were wrongly accused in 1931 of raping two white ...

Various projections have suggested that carbon emissions from China, the world's largest emitter, will probably peak soon — if they haven’t already — well ahead of Beijing’s pledge that ...

Brook Cecilia Cheuvront, 20, went hiking on Saturday at Devils Peak at Table Mountain National Park near Cape Town before her body was found on Sunday. Western Cape police spokesperson ...

Here are two key resources to help you plan your leaf-peeping adventure: a map of the best viewing locations and a county-by-county breakdown of peak leaf-peeping dates. Hover over orange dots for ...

Scientists are creating "humanity's last exam" to test AI and see when it has reached expert-level intelligence. People are being asked to submit their questions and create "the world's most ...