Switzerland’s famed glaciers are increasingly resembling Swiss cheese, riddled with holes, as climate change visibly impacts these vital natural formations. Matthias Huss of the glacier monitoring ...

Climate change appears to be making some of Switzerland's vaunted glaciers look like Swiss cheese: Full of holes. Matthias ...

Huss hosted The Associated Press for a visit to the sprawling glacier this month, as he carried out his first monitoring ...

What's happening? Our warming world is melting glaciers and ice sheets, and crucial climate data is vanishing along with them, reported Carbon Brief.A team of scientists is studying the ...

Sea ice data is updated daily, with a one-day lag. On occasion, there is data delay which is usually resolved within a few days. The orange line in extent and concentration images (left and middle) ...

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Rock Glacier Velocity is collectively controlled by the geomorphologic features such as slope and landform geometry, as well as the thermo-mechanical properties of the frozen ground, such as ice ...

The world’s glaciers are in dire health with almost 40% of their total mass already doomed even if global temperatures stopped rising immediately, a new study has found.

Nine million cubic metres of rock and ice came crashing down on Blatten after a landslide. Homepage. ... and fall on to the Birch glacier, putting enormous pressure on the ice.

Following the dramatic rock fall and glacier collapse on Wednesday in the Swiss Lötschental valley, officials said on Saturday that the situation had eased.. One fear had been that the Lonza ...

The evacuated small village of Blatten was largely destroyed by the rock and ice fall, with the remaining houses flooding. "Often a big disaster has to strike before people realize that something ...

Swiss glaciers, severely impacted by climate change, melted as much in 2022 and 2023 as between 1960 and 1990, losing in total about 10 percent of their volume. In Aug. 2017, approximately 3.1 million ...