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

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

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 Alpine mountainside, sending plumes of dust skyward and ...

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 ...

Video on social media and Swiss TV showed the mudslide near Blatten, in the southern Lötschental valley, with homes and buildings partially submerged under a mass of brownish sludge.

He added that the army had been mobilised following previous indications that the glacier's movement was speeding up. During a press conference, Swiss Environment Minister Albert Rösti expressed ...

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 ...

and that the army had been mobilized after earlier indications that the movement of the glacier was accelerating. Despite the scale of the disaster, no deaths have been reported. The village was ...