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Researchers reveal a dynamic geologic past for Antarctica’s Transantarctic Mountains, uncovering ancient mountain-building ...
Contrary to conventional wisdom that glaciers just carve landscapes, they can also form low-relief surfaces by sheltering ...
A massive glacier collapse hit Blatten in the Swiss Alps on May 28, 2025. Evacuations saved lives, but one person is missing.
Kell Morris says he and his wife were on a remote area trail near a glacier, just south of Anchorage, Alaska. When he fell, he says he went down an embankment followed by falling rocks, and got ...
Swiss authorities evacuated the town of Blatten days before the Birch glacier collapsed, but the resources that allowed them ...
The movement of unique landforms called “rock glaciers” give insight into how climate change is impacting permafrost in mountainous regions.
The dramatic collapse of Switzerland's Birch glacier, which wiped out a village, is an unprecedented disaster likely to cost ...
A small Alpine river dammed by a landslide that largely buried the Swiss village of Blatten is now flowing through the debris ...
Rescuers found Kell Morris with hypothermia, wavering in and out of consciousness, face first in a creek as his wife held his head out of the water.
An Alaska man who was pinned facedown in an icy creek by a 700-pound (318-kilogram) boulder for three hours survived the ...
An artificial lake building up behind the rubble left by a glacier that dramatically plunged down a Swiss mountainside, ...