On 14 May 2025, a large rockfall from Kleines Nesthorn, near the 3934m summit of the Bietschhorn in the Canton of Valais, Switzerland, fell onto the Birch Glacier. It triggered a flow of debris into ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. STORY: With glaciers around the globe disappearing faster than ever, Swiss scientists say this one in the Alps could be partially ...

A record number of glaciers will disappear from the Alps over the next decade, warns new research. Scientists have for the first time calculated how many glaciers worldwide are likely to remain until ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Why glaciologists believe the Birch Glacier collapsed, burying a nearby Swiss town A village in the Swiss Alps has been buried ...

A vast section of a glacier broke apart in the Swiss Alps on Wednesday, setting off a landslide of ice, mud and rocks that caused widespread damage to a small village, nine days after its 300 ...

Hidden within the Morteratsch Glacier in Switzerland lies a large ice cave — a striking yet sobering sign of the ongoing and accelerating glacier disintegration leading to a reduction in the number of ...

British startup Earthwave and a group of European scientists have used satellite data to map out glacial melt across the globe — and the results are alarming. The team discovered that the European ...

Two hikers found a remarkably preserved mummy on an Ötztal Alps glacier in 1991. Dating revealed it was Ötzi, over 5,300 ...