In the past century, scientists have observed more rockfalls and avalanches in the Alps, a looming threat to nearby villages.

Villagers nervously watch a mountain peak after rockslide buried their neighbours - Blatten was evacuated before a chunk of a ...

Climate change appears to be making some of Switzerland's vaunted glaciers look like Swiss cheese: full of holes.

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 ...

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 part of a mountain village evacuated earlier this month due to the risk ...

These majestic landscapes have always been dangerous, but as the world warms, mountains are becoming much more unpredictable — and the world is unprepared.

This photograph shows the small village of Blatten, near the Bietschhorn mountain of the Swiss Alps, destroyed by a landslide after part of the huge Birch Glacier collapsed and was swallowed up by ...

Permafrost is often called the glue that holds the mountains together. When it thaws, the mountains crumble, and they start ...

The small village of Blatten, in the Bietschhorn mountain of the Swiss Alps, destroyed by a landslide after part of the huge Birch Glacier collapsed and swallowed up by the river Lonza the day ...

Major tipping points for Earth’s ice sheets and mountain glaciers can occur at temperatures well below 1.5°C, said scientists ...

BOYNE FALLS, MI - It started as a snow lover’s fever dream: Build up the Victor ski run at Boyne Mountain into a deep, snow-packed “glacier” that would last all winter and spring - and right ...