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Switzerland's glaciers have hit their annual "glacier loss day"—when winter's snow and ice are gone—weeks earlier than usual, ...
In the Swiss Alpine resort of Kandersteg, officials have been closely monitoring a deteriorating mountain peak that towers ...
A tsunami struck a fjord in East Greenland in 2023, ringing seismometers for nine straight days. A new satellite study ...
A review of data showed that the Birch Glacier was a rarity in that it has been advancing while most glaciers have been ...
Climate change appears to be making some of Switzerland's vaunted glaciers look like Swiss cheese: full of holes.
In the past century, scientists have observed more rockfalls and avalanches in the Alps, a looming threat to nearby villages.
One expert notes that glacier shrinkage has wide effects on agriculture, fisheries, drinking water levels and cross-boundary ...
The glaciers of Switzerland, which has the most of any country in continental Europe, are fading because of global warming.
One of Switzerland's glaciologists says his teams are noticing a strange phenomenon in the Alpine country's glaciers.
Drip, drip. Trickle, trickle. That's the sound of water seeping from a sunbaked and slushy Swiss glacier that geoscientists ...
The collapse of the Birch glacier in the Swiss Alps was an expected disaster. Authorities and scientists had been monitoring the area closely and when the first signs of instability started to ...
A picturesque Swiss village has been nearly entirely destroyed by a collapsing glacier, leaving one person missing amid a deluge of ice, mud and rock. Dramatic before-and-after images show the ...