A new study warns the Hindu Kush Himalaya could lose up to 75% of its glaciers if global temperatures rise by 2°C. If warming ...

Many glaciers around the world, including in parts of the Arctic, will remain at risk even if the international community is ...

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

A village in Switzerland that was home to 300 people has almost been completely destroyed after a glacier collapsed onto it.

Konstantine Vlasis never imagined that a single track on a Sigur Rós album would lead him to studying the ice on Iceland's ...

On Wednesday, a landslide from the mountain side of Birch Glacier -- located in the Lötschental valley in northern Switzerland -- flattened homes in the Alpine town of Blatten after a large chunk of ...

A Swiss Alpine village has been buried by a massive debris field after a glacier collapsed on a nearby mountain. Reuters reports that 90% of Blatten, Switzerland is engulfed by ice, mud, and rock ...

If Earth stays at its current levels of warming — below policymakers’ goal of 1.5 degrees Celsius — polar ice sheets may melt ...

A huge mass of rock and ice from a glacier has thundered down a Swiss Alpine mountainside. Authorities say it covered with ...

A huge chunk of a glacier in the Swiss Alps broke off on Wednesday afternoon, causing a deluge of ice, mud and rock to bury ...

Swiss authorities said Thursday that rock and ice piles from a collapsed glacier that destroyed a village were preventing ...