Warming temperatures are wreaking havoc at elevation, upending the Winter Olympics and the tourism industry and imperiling communities ...

STORY: With glaciers around the globe disappearing faster than ever, Swiss scientists say this one in the Alps could be partially saved. Though only if global warming is capped below two degrees ...

A record number of glaciers will disappear from the Alps over the next decade, warns new research. Scientists have for the first time calculated how many glaciers worldwide are likely to remain until ...

JUNGFRAUJOCH, Switzerland (Reuters) - The biggest glacier in the Alps could yet be partially saved if global warming is capped below two degrees Celsius, Swiss scientists said on Friday, although ...

MORTERATSCH GLACIER, Switzerland (Reuters) - From the way 45-year-old Swiss glaciologist Andreas Linsbauer bounds over icy crevasses, you would never guess he was carrying 10 kg of steel equipment ...

The Alps will experience 'peak glacier extinction' in just eight years – with thousands of glaciers lost forever, an ominous study has predicted. Using state–of–the–art models, researchers calculated ...

A vast section of a glacier broke apart in the Swiss Alps on Wednesday, setting off a landslide of ice, mud and rocks that caused widespread damage to a small village, nine days after its 300 ...

British startup Earthwave and a group of European scientists have used satellite data to map out glacial melt across the globe — and the results are alarming. The team discovered that the European ...

In 1952, 52 servicemen died in a plane crash in Alaska’s Chugach Mountains. The discovery of their bodies may have been aided ...

Nearly 12.5 miles in length, this glacier is the longest "stream" of ice in the Alps. It originates in the Jungfrau region, bordering Konkordiaplatz, and it is perhaps one of the best places to visit ...

The findings, published in the journal Nature Climate Change, reveal that regions with many small glaciers at lower elevations or near the equator are particularly vulnerable – including the Alps, the ...