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

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

A review of data showed that the Birch Glacier was a rarity in that it has been advancing while most glaciers have been ...

The disaster has been captured in stark detail by the OLI-2 instrument on Landsat 9. The images reveal a landscape dramatically altered by nature's force.

A Swiss Alpine village was largely wiped out on Wednesday after a massive glacier carrying rock and debris detached and roared down the mountainside, destroying everything in its path.

In the Swiss Alpine resort of Kandersteg, officials have been closely monitoring a deteriorating mountain peak that towers ...

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

Switzerland's glaciers, long-standing symbols of natural beauty and resilience, are rapidly declining due to climate change ...

Matthias Huss, of the Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich and glacier monitoring group GLAMOS, and Monica Ursina Jaeger drill holes into the Rhone Glacier near Goms, Switzerland, June 10, ...

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.

Swiss authorities have cleared a village in the country’s east over a potential rockslide, three weeks after a mudslide submerged a vacated village in the southwest.

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