Ever since the election of Donald Trump as the next president of the United States, Democrats, climate advocates and many others have been worried that the nation could slip backwards in areas like global warming and climate change where Americans made notable progress over the last many years.

The concern is real as Trump has long been a skeptic of climate change. He has repeated called global warming a ‘hoax’. He also vowed that he would cancel Paris Agreement, which aims to tackle global warming by cutting manmade carbon emissions.

Continual retreating of West Antarctica’s enormous glaciers has apparently been posing an “unstoppable” threat by raising global sea levels but the problem dates back to mid-1940s, a new study suggested.

An international team of researchers from the United States, Denmark, German, and Britain found in the new study that Pine Island Glacier and its next door neighbor Thwaites are increasingly retreating because of “un-grounding.”

Thousands of reindeer starved to death in Arctic Russia in 2006 and 2013 due to unusual weather conditions linked to global warming and climate change, a new report revealed.

A team of researchers led by Rovaniemi, Finland-based Bruce Forbes of the University of Lapland, found that 20,000 reindeer starved to death in 2006 and nearly 61,000 died in 2013.

Climate change skeptic Donald Trump’s victory as president will likely put an end the United States’ leadership role in the international fight against global warming, allowing China to take the lead role.

The Asian country of China worked closely with the Obama administration to build support for the 2015 Paris Agreement on climate change, which aims to tackle global warming by cutting greenhouse gas emissions. The two countries’ partnership on climate change encouraged nearly two hundred the countries to sign the pact last year.