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       From  - Live Science    By - Skyler Ware   Edited by - Amal Udawatta Earth is the only body in the solar system that currently exhibits plate tectonics, whose movements explain this surface crack along the San Andreas Fault.   (Image credit: Bob Rowan via Getty Images) Plate tectonics give Earth its mountains, earthquakes, continental drift and maybe even helped give rise to life itself. But do other planets in the solar system have them too? Plate tectonics give rise to Earth's mountain ranges, earthquakes and the long-term movement of continents, and may even have  provided the right conditions for life on Earth . But as far as we know, no other bodies in the  solar system  exhibit plate tectonics today. Why is our world different? "We don't know for sure,"  Bradford Foley , a geodynamicist at Penn State, told Live Science. "I think it's still considered one of the great unsolved problems in geophysics today." Ear...

      From -BBC World News   By-  Jocelyn Timperley and Isabelle Gerretsen   Edited by - Amal Udawatta Getty Images Some key events coming up in 2025 have game-changing potential for our planet. Here, two of the BBC's environment journalists analyse what they could mean for the climate and nature. As countries unveil new climate targets, Donald Trump enters the White House for a second term and a potentially game-changing ruling for future climate lawsuits unfolds – 2025 is set to be a big year for climate and nature.  Speaking in his  New Year's message  in late December, secretary-general of the United Nations  António Guterres said that the world is witnessing "climate breakdown – in real time".  "We must exit this road to ruin. In 2025, countries must put the world on a safer path by dramatically slashing emissions and supporting the transition to a renewable future," he said, stressing that "it is essential – and it is possible...