The Valais local government said the damage is "considerable," with one person missing and homes under debris.

Anthropologists have examined the societal consequences of global glacier loss. In an important contribution from the social sciences, Rice University anthropologists Cymene Howe and Dominic Boyer ...

Formerly stranded NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams discuss health issues since their return to Earth.

The village of Blatten suddenly disappeared under a massive avalanche. Thankfully, inhabitants had been evacuated.

New projections show that temporarily overshooting this limit—even up to 3°C—would lock in severe and irreversible glacier ...

The InSAR Selected Glacier Site Velocity Maps are produced from image pairs measured by the German Aerospace Center's (DLR) twin satellites TerraSAR-X / TanDEM-X (TSX / TDX). The measurements in this ...

Konstantine Vlasis never imagined that a single track on a Sigur Rós album would lead him to studying the ice on Iceland's ...