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

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

Water drips June 10, 2025, from a melting chunk of ice that originated from the Rhone Glacier near Goms, Switzerland. The sun ...

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

The disaster has been captured in stark detail by the OLI-2 instrument on Landsat 9. The images reveal a landscape ...

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

A 51-year-old Swiss man died in a helicopter crash on the Oberaletsch Glacier in Valais, Switzerland, on Saturday afternoon. The Eurocopter AS350 B3 ...

GENEVA, June 27, 2025 (BSS/AFP) - A body found near the Swiss village of Blatten, which was wiped out by a dramatic glacier ...

Huss hosted The Associated Press for a visit to the sprawling glacier this month, as he carried out his first monitoring ...

The small village of Blatten in the Swiss Alps, destroyed by a landslide after part of the huge Birch Glacier collapsed on May 29, 2025. Alexandre Agrusti/AFP/Getty Images.

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.

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