A new study published in Advances in Atmospheric Sciencesreveals powerful and previously unknown winds racing over parts of ...

The movement of unique landforms called “rock glaciers” give insight into how climate change is impacting permafrost in mountainous regions.

New research reveals powerful Antarctic winds that could be accelerating glacier melt and rising seas. In the far reaches of ...

A cascade of events in the Swiss Alps led to the dramatic collapse of the Birch glacier, wiping out Blatten village in the ...

A huge mass of rock and ice from a glacier thundered down a Swiss mountainside on Wednesday, sending plumes of dust skyward ...

Videos on social media and Swiss TV showed the mudslide near Blatten, in the southern Ltschental valley. Houses and buildings ...

A glacier in Switzerland's Lötschental valley broke off, causing a massive mudslide and covering 90% of the village of ...

He said the army had been mobilized after earlier indications that the movement of the glacier was accelerating. At a news conference, Swiss Environment Minister Albert Rösti lamented “an ...

The glacier’s collapse was so explosive that ... In a statement, the agency said the mass movement was one of the largest ever recorded in the country. Experts are mixed on whether the collapse ...

At least one person is missing after Blatten village in southern Switzerland was buried beneath tonnes of debris from the ...

On May 28, a mass of rock, ice, mud and water crashed down on and buried the mountain village of Blatten in the Swiss canton ...

Dramatic video showed the picturesque alpine village of Blatten being swept away by a mass of brownish sludge.