A cascade of events in the Swiss Alps led to the dramatic collapse of the Birch glacier, wiping out Blatten village in the valley below, glaciologists and geoscientists told AFP on Friday.

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. How ...

Gam Narakornpaijit made lifelong friends and got to climb peaks in Glacier National Park. The 23-year-old from Thailand has many fond memories of spending the summer of 2023 spent working at the ...

Glacier's Sam Engellant hits a return in a boys' singles match against Flathead's Rowan Alexander at Flathead Valley Community College on Tuesday, May 6. (Casey Kreider/Daily Inter Lake) Glacier's ...

Kohler East Glacier is redirecting ice flow from Kohler West Glacier, causing it to slow down. This rapid shift, observed via satellite, contributes to sea-level rise, forcing a reevaluation of ...

The Yala glacier, located between 5,170 and 5,750 metres above sea level, is in the Langtang Valley in northern Nepal. Since 1974, the glacier has shrunk in area by 66 percent and retreated 784 ...

Glacier experts from India, China, Bhutan and Nepal, along with residents of the Langtang region in Nepal, on Monday paid their tribute to Yala glacier, one of the most studied glaciers in the ...

A glacier in Antarctica is committing 'ice piracy' -- stealing ice from a neighbor -- in a phenomenon that has never been observed in such a short time frame, say scientists. A glacier in ...

And they’ve been committing acts of thievery in Antarctica for the past eighteen years. A new study, published in The Cryosphere, reveals that a glacier in Antarctica has been stealing ice from its ...

Stream NBC 5 for free, 24/7, wherever you are. His second stroke of luck came when a sled dog tourism company that operates on the glacier overheard the 911 dispatch and offered up its helicopter ...

Nepal will mark the rapid melting of a crucial glacier with a “funeral” next week as scientists warn that climate change threatens thousands of other masses of ice across the world.

An Alaska man who was pinned facedown in an icy creek by a 700-pound (318-kilogram) boulder for three hours survived the ordeal with only minor injuries, thanks in part to his wife's quick ...