Melting glaciers pose a global threat. A Swiss glacier collapse highlights the issue. Glacial melt sustains billions, but is ...

A devastating landslide, triggered by the Birch Glacier collapse, buried Blatten, Switzerland, prompting evacuations but ...

A cascade of events in the Swiss Alps led to the dramatic collapse of the Birch glacier, wiping out Blatten village in the ...

Permafrost is often called the glue that holds the mountains together. When it thaws, the mountains crumble, and they start to break apart. At the same time, the glaciers are shrinking and, as they do ...

What happened to Birch Glacier is what we would expect from rising temperatures in the Alps and elsewhere,” one scientist ...

The natural disaster shows a volatile combination of climate change effects, fragile natural environments and human ...

On May 28, a massive glacier gave way and destroyed a village in the Swiss Alps after a rockfall caused it to fail under ...

Switzerland’s president said evacuees from a village whose homes and businesses were destroyed by a dramatic landslide caused ...

What Causes Glaciers to Collapse like the Event That Buried a Swiss Village?