Pine Island Glacier, one of the fastest-shrinking glaciers in Antarctica, hastened its slide into the sea between 2017 and ...

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

Swiss insurers on Tuesday put the damage caused by last month's glacier collapse, which largely destroyed the Alpine village ...

When we think of glaciers, polar bears and penguins often come to mind. Finches are more associated with backyards than icy ...

Never in the history of the Swiss Alps has a glacier caused such destruction as the one that collapsed in stunning fashion on May 28. After a few days of ominous advances, coupled with rockslides ...

The situation was "stable” on Monday with "no notable changes" at the Birch glacier, according to Swiss broadcaster RTS. But ...

Several major U.S. cities could be impacted if the Thwaites Glacier were to melt, according to NOAA projections.

These majestic landscapes have always been dangerous, but as the world warms, mountains are becoming much more unpredictable — and the world is unprepared.

A massive glacier collapse hit Blatten in the Swiss Alps on May 28, 2025. Evacuations saved lives, but one person is missing.

The collapse of the Birch glacier in the Swiss Alps was an expected disaster. Authorities and scientists had been monitoring the area closely and when the first signs of instability started to ...

The dramatic collapse of Switzerland's Birch glacier, which wiped out a village, is an unprecedented disaster likely to cost hundreds of millions of dollars, the Swiss Insurance Association said ...

The Birch glacier was below the 3,342-metre (10,965-foot) high Kleines Nesthorn peak. In the fortnight before the glacier's collapse, a series of falls from the mountain dumped three million cubic ...