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, ...

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

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

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 ...

A Swiss mountain slope bursting and unleashing a cascade of rocks and ice over an idyllic Alpine village last week was a chilling image, but also the symbol of a well-managed climate crisis.

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.

In the wake of the Blatten landslide, which almost flattened the Swiss Alpine village, there is increased focus on other ...

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.

Residents struggled to absorb the scale of devastation caused by a huge slab of glacier that buried most of their picturesque Swiss village, in what scientists suspect is a dramatic example of climate ...

Speaking at the Glacier Preservation Conference in Dushanbe, Tajikistan, Saulo emphasised that all countries, regardless of development level, face threats linked to glacial change. A recent disaster ...