Alpine regions in Europe experiencing extreme glacier collapse due to heat-trapping effects of fossil fuel pollution ...

Swiss glaciers lost over 5 percent of their ice volume following a hot summer—and at least two disappeared altogether—an acceleration of melting that threatens the tourism lifeblood of Alpine ...

Switzerland's glaciers are disappearing at a record pace. More than 5% of their ice has vanished this year alone — ...

Glacier loss can also destabilise mountain slopes and increase the risk of landslides and, in extreme cases, flash flooding.

Glaciers in Switzerland – the home to the most in the Alps – lost 5.5% of their ice volume this year, the second-biggest ...

Communities and researchers on both the French and Italian sides of the mountain say this summer’s record heat has accelerated changes that are already reshaping the Alpine environment ...

Scientists say such rapid melting is no longer surprising given the pace of climate change.

Glaciers in Switzerland, home to the largest number of glaciers in the Alps, lost 5.5% of their ice volume this year, marking ...

An unstable mountain rock formation looming above the Swiss village of Kandersteg threatens a landslide that could rival the disaster that destroyed nearby Blatten last year, a collapse scientists ...

The volume and speed of the wall of mud, boulders and debris that rushed more than 60 miles down a river through Nepal on Aug. 26 shocked even experienced researchers who study mountains, glaciers and ...

As we learn more about the flood-related tragedy in Nepal, scientists are asking what role glaciers and permafrost might have ...