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

Glaciers could reach peak rates of disappearing in the coming decades due to global warming, according to new research.

An artificial lake building up behind the rubble left by a glacier that dramatically plunged down a Swiss mountainside, destroying a village, is beginning to drain, authorities said Friday, reducing ...

The landslide that buried most of a Swiss village this week is focusing renewed attention on the role of global warming in glacier collapses around the world and the increasing dangers. How glaciers ...

A scientific study published on Monday in Nature Climate Change warned that unless governments take action now, the planet could reach a stage of “peak glacier extinction” by midcentury with up to ...

New research reveals when glaciers around the world will vanish and why every fraction of a degree of warming could decide ...

Glaciers around the world are shrinking at a pace scientists say will continue for decades. Public attention often focuses on ...

An analysis of the expansion of cracks in the Thwaites Glacier over the past 20 years suggests that a total collapse could be ...

A 20-year fracture cascade is destabilizing Thwaites Glacier—and may be a preview of wider Antarctic ice-shelf collapse. Credit: Shutterstock Thwaites Glacier in West Antarctica -- widely known as the ...

A new research forecast has revealed when thousands of glaciers around the world will collapse as a result of climate change.

Glacial earthquakes are a special type of earthquake generated in cold, icy regions. First discovered in the northern ...

In 2019 hundreds of mourners, many wearing black, attended a funeral for the glacier led by a priest and glaciologists.