A huge chunk of a glacier in the Swiss Alps broke off on Wednesday afternoon, causing a deluge of ice, mud and rock to bury part of a mountain village evacuated earlier this month due to the risk of a ...

Glaciologist Olivier Gagliardini says that while it is too early to know whether climate change was behind this avalanche, ...

The Swiss village of Blatten has been partially destroyed after a huge chunk of glacier crashed down into the valley.

Permafrost is often called the glue that holds the mountains together. When it thaws, the mountains crumble, and they start ...

The disaster has been captured in stark detail by the OLI-2 instrument on Landsat 9. The images reveal a landscape ...

Switzerland ranked the world's most competitive country, glacier collapse to cost 320 million francs and more news in our ...

The village of Blatten in the Swiss Alps, was previously home to 300 people before a glacier above it collapsed, burying the ...

The landslide that buried most of a Swiss village this week is focusing renewed attention on the role of global warming in glacier collapses around the world and the increasing dangers.

Two weeks after a huge landslide wiped out most of the mountain village of Blatten in the Swiss Alps, talk of reconstruction ...

The amount of snow covering Swiss glaciers at the end of the winter this year was 13 per cent below the 2010-2020 average, ...

The search for a 64-year-old man was suspended on Thursday after a huge mass of rock and ice from a glacier crashed down a Swiss mountainside the day before.

Experience the magic of Bettmeralp, a car-free Alpine village with postcard-perfect views. Located above the Aletsch Glacier, ...