The recent catastrophic glacier collapse in Switzerland, which obliterated Blatten village, underscores the urgent global crisis of glacial melting due to climate change. As the Dushanbe conference on ...

Permafrost is often called the glue that holds the mountains together. When it thaws, the mountains crumble, and they start to break apart. At the same time, the glaciers are shrinking and, as they do ...

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What happened to Birch Glacier is what we would expect from rising temperatures in the Alps and elsewhere,” one scientist ...

After a lightning strike on 22 May, a forest fire broke out near Krasnoyarsk, consuming the trees in a ring-shaped pattern.

Several out-of-control wildfires are raging in northern and central Manitoba, where about 17,000 people are fleeing their ...

The landslide that buried a Swiss village and riverbed this week is refocusing attention on the role of global warming in ...

A video is going viral on social media showing a major chunk of Birch Glacier collapsing in Switzerland's Alpine range.

On Wednesday, a landslide from the mountain side of Birch Glacier -- located in the Lötschental valley in northern ...

With the Swiss army closely monitoring the situation, flooding worsened during the day as vast mounds of debris almost two ...

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