or Gaea, known as Earth or Mother Earth (the Greek common noun for 'land' is ge or ga).  She was an early earth goddess and it is written that Gaia was born form Chaos, the great void of emptiness within the universe.

New data released shows that the melting of mountain glaciers worldwide is accelerating, a clear sign that climate change is also picking up, the UN environmental agency and scientists said. Thirty reference glaciers monitored by the Swiss-based World Glacier Monitoring Service lost about 66 centimetres (two feet) in thickness on average in 2005, the UN Environment Programme said in a statement. "The new data confirms the trend in accelerated loss during the past two and half decades," it added.