Recent research has led scientists to new conclusions about the fastest melting glacier in Antarctica. Some are reassuring, ...

A devastating glacier collapse in southern Switzerland has wiped out the village of Blatten — and now, two more villages face the threat of catastrophic flooding. On May 29th, millions of tonnes of ...

This afternoon, a massive avalanche of ice, mud, and rock buried the picturesque Swiss village of Blatten. It was triggered when a huge chunk of ice broke off from the Birch Glacier, which lies ...

Careful slope monitoring prevented mass casualties in the landslide at Blatten, Switzerland, this year, but mountain ...

A small village in the Swiss Alps has been engulfed by ice, mud, and rock in a rare natural disaster that points to an uncertain future as unstable mountainous glaciers can break apart in destructive ...

The dramatic collapse of Switzerland's Birch glacier, which wiped out a village, is an unprecedented disaster likely to cost hundreds of millions of dollars, the Swiss Insurance Association said ...

The collapse of the Swiss Birch glacier serves as a chilling warning of the escalating dangers faced by communities worldwide living under the shadow of fragile ice, particularly in Asia, experts say.

A Swiss Alpine village was largely wiped out on Wednesday after a massive glacier carrying rock and debris detached and roared down the mountainside, destroying everything in its path. Scientists had ...

A massive glacial lake outburst flood (GLOF) has struck Pakistan-occupied Gilgit-Baltistan (PoGB), leaving a trail of destruction in its path. The disaster began when water from the Shishper Glacier ...

For the third consecutive year, a wave of water gushed out of an Alaskan glacial lake, threatening the state’s capital city of Juneau. But, flood barriers installed by the city managed to prevent ...