Swiss glaciers have faced significant melting this year, with a 3% drop in total volume, marking the fourth-largest annual ...

High in the mountains, glaciers once kept their cool—literally. The massive ice bodies create their own cold microclimates ...

When Matthias Huss first visited Rhône Glacier in Switzerland 35 years ago, the ice was just a short walk from where his ...

Swiss glaciers lost nearly 3% of their volume in 2025, following a snow-poor winter and scorching summer heatwaves. The melt ...

“As glaciers retreat due to climate change, our findings suggest these volcanoes go on to erupt more frequently and more explosively.” Those are the words of Pablo Moreno-Yaeger, given at the 2025 ...

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. How glaciers ...

The glacier’s retreat has been ongoing, but scientists believe within a few years it will be separated from Mendenhall Lake.

An aerial view shows the destruction of Blatten, Switzerland, Thursday, May 29, 2025, one day after a massive debris avalanche, triggered by the collapse of the Birch Glacier, swept down to the valley ...

The retreat and loss of glaciers is also having an impact on Switzerland’s landscape, causing mountains to shift and ground ...