That's the sound of water seeping from a sunbaked and slushy Swiss glacier that geoscientists are monitoring for signs of ...

Search parties combing the Swiss Alpine village that was buried last month after the collapse of a glacier have found human ...

A helicopter crashed in the Fusshörner region on the Oberaletsch Glacier in canton Valais on Saturday afternoon. The ...

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

One of Switzerland's glaciologists says his teams are noticing a strange phenomenon in the Alpine country's glaciers.

One expert notes that glacier shrinkage has wide effects on agriculture, fisheries, drinking water levels and cross-boundary ...

The glaciers of Switzerland, which has the most of any country in continental Europe, are fading because of global warming.

Huss hosted The Associated Press for a visit to the sprawling glacier this month, as he carried out his first monitoring mission as summer temperatures accelerate the thaw. Under normal conditions, ...

Swiss insurers on Tuesday put the damage caused by last month's glacier collapse, which largely destroyed the Alpine village ...

A cascade of events in the Swiss Alps led to the dramatic collapse of the Birch glacier, wiping out Blatten village in the valley below, glaciologists and geoscientists told AFP on Friday.

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.

Swiss authorities evacuated the town of Blatten days before the Birch glacier collapsed, but the resources that allowed them to do that are not available to most countries.